Christian v. Coleman's Adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
Elizabeth Coleman died in 1819, seized and possessed of sundry real and personal estate, and intestate. Her daughter Mary, who afterwards married Daniel Christian, her sons James, Thomas and Samuel, and her grandchildren, John, Elizabeth, Robert, Eindsay and James Hardwick, the children of her deceased daughter Anne Hardwick, were her heirs and distributees. . Her son Thomas was her administrator.
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Elizabeth Coleman died in 1819, seized and possessed of sundry real and personal estate, and intestate. Her daughter Mary, who afterwards married Daniel Christian, her sons James, Thomas and Samuel, and her grandchildren, John, Elizabeth, Robert, Eindsay and James Hardwick, the children of her deceased daughter Anne Hardwick, were her heirs and distributees. . Her son Thomas was her administrator. Mrs. Coleman had been, during her life, entitled to a life estate in lands devised to her by her husband, who died in 1778; and, many years before her death, she put several parcels of this land…
1Opinion of the Court
May, 1831.
Hotchpot — Advancements*—Profits of Lands in Possession of Children during Life of Hother. — A mother tenant for life of lands, gives possession of several parcels thereof, to four of her children, respectively, to be cultivated by them for their own use, but makes them no conveyance; these children hold the respective parcels of land, as tenants at will of their mother, till her death, taking the profits to their own use, no rents being rendered or demanded: Held, they are not bound to account for these profits, and bring them into hotchpot, as an advancement, real or personal, in…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Kyle v. ConradWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1885
- Knight v. OliverSupreme Court of Virginia · 1855