Williams' adm'rs v. Skinker
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the Circuit court of Frederick county, instituted in February 1866, by Thomas J. Skinker and Ann Eliza his wife, who before her marriage was Ann Eliza Hite, against Philip Williams, executor of James M. Hite, Sr., deceased, and others, to recover the amount due to Mrs. Skinker under the will of her father, the said James M. Hite, deceased.
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This was a suit in equity in the Circuit court of Frederick county, instituted in February 1866, by Thomas J. Skinker and Ann Eliza his wife, who before her marriage was Ann Eliza Hite, against Philip Williams, executor of James M. Hite, Sr., deceased, and others, to recover the amount due to Mrs. Skinker under the will of her father, the said James M. Hite, deceased. The defendants having answered the bill, Williams filed a cross-bill in the cause against Skinker and wife; which they answered. The defendant dying in the progress of the cause, it was revived against his administrators with…
1Opinion of the CourtChristian, J.
This cause is before us upon an appeal allowed to a decree of the Circuit court of Frederick county. A statement of the following facts is necessary to a proper understanding of the case, and the application of the principles of law which must govern it.
On the 2d day of June 1858, James 1L Hite, Sr., sold to his two sons, J. Irvine Hite and J. Madison Hite, his farm, lying in Clarke county, containing about seven hundred acres, for the sum of §45 per acre. One-eighth of the purchase money was to be paid on the 1st day of January 1859, and one-eighth annually thereafter, until one moiety…
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