Rowe v. Bentley
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Gloucester county, .brought in 1871 by Mary E. Bentley, a married woman, by her next friend and her children, against Thomas B. Rowe, Thomas S. Taliaferro and another, for a settlement of the accounts of said Rowe and Taliaferro as trustees of the plaintiffs, and for general relief.
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This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Gloucester county, .brought in 1871 by Mary E. Bentley, a married woman, by her next friend and her children, against Thomas B. Rowe, Thomas S. Taliaferro and another, for a settlement of the accounts of said Rowe and Taliaferro as trustees of the plaintiffs, and for general relief. The only question in the case was whether Eowe, who had been removed as trustee in 1855, when Taliaferro ivas substituted in his place, had paid over to Taliaferro the sum of $400, which was in his hands as trustee. Eowe showed a receipt of Taliaferro’s, in which…
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
Many years ago James II. Bentley, by deed, settled certain property to the separate use of his wife, Mary for her life, with remainder to her children, and in the year 1851 the appellant, Thomas B. Howe, ivas appointed by the circuit court of Gloucester county trustee under the deed, and amongst the trust property which came to his hands were four hundred dollars in money. He acted as trustee until some time in the month of February, 1855, when he was displaced by order of court, and the appellee, Thomas S. Taliaferro, substituted as trustee. Ho portion of this money, nor of the interest…
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