Hartsook's Adm'r v. Crawford's Adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Nelson county, entered October 2d, 1886, in an amended bill filed by B. 0. Hartsook, administrator of D. J. Hartsook, deceased, and 0. T. Smith as sheriff-administrator of William 0. Roberts, deceased, in the chancery cause of Farrow against Crawford and others. A plea of the statute of limitations, filed by the defendants to the amended bill, being sustained and the bill dismissed, the plaintiffs therein appealed.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Nelson county, entered October 2d, 1886, in an amended bill filed by B. 0. Hartsook, administrator of D. J. Hartsook, deceased, and 0. T. Smith as sheriff-administrator of William 0. Roberts, deceased, in the chancery cause of Farrow against Crawford and others. A plea of the statute of limitations, filed by the defendants to the amended bill, being sustained and the bill dismissed, the plaintiffs therein appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The case is as follows: In the month of April, 1853, a bill was filed in the circuit court of Nelson county by Thomas M. Farrow and James Durrett against M. I. Crawford and others, seeking to have an account of the debts and liabilities of the late George H. Crawford, which were binding upon the land purchased by the said Farrow from the said George H. Crawford, and to have an administrator of the estate of the said George H. Crawford appointed, etc. And in June following, D. J. Hartsook filed a bill in the same court, seeking an account of the debts and demands due by the estate of the said…
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