Sharpe's Ex'or v. Rockwood
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal of Wellington Goddin, executor of H. W. Sharpe, and L. B. Price, and Jesse P. Keesee, sureties of said executor, from decree of chancery court of Richmond city,, rendered 28th October, 1880, in suit therein pending, under the style of Rockwood v. Sharpe’s Executor and others.
1Opinion of the CourtEichardson, J.
The question in this case is as to the liability of the •sureties of Wellington Goddin, executor of Henry W. Sharpe, deceased.
The testator departed this life in the year 1856, leaving a will, which was duly admitted to probate on the 12th day of August, 1856, by which Wellington Goddin was appointed •executor, and as such qualified on the 14th day of August, 1856, and entered into bond in the penalty of $20,000, with J. L. Apperson, L. B. Price and Jesse F. Keesee as his sure*27ties; and the bond thus entered into was with condition, in the usual form, that “the said Wellington Goddin should…
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