Wills' adm'r v. Dunn's adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
In 1819, Thomas Dunn, as the administrator de bonis non of Lewis Dunn, deceased, and as heir and distributee of said Lewis, filed his bill in the County Court of Sussex, against William Wills, and Lucy his wife, who was the administratrix of Thomas Dunn the elder, and against Allen Temple, as the administrator de bonis non of Nathaniel Dunn, deceased.
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In 1819, Thomas Dunn, as the administrator de bonis non of Lewis Dunn, deceased, and as heir and distributee of said Lewis, filed his bill in the County Court of Sussex, against William Wills, and Lucy his wife, who was the administratrix of Thomas Dunn the elder, and against Allen Temple, as the administrator de bonis non of Nathaniel Dunn, deceased. He charged that his father Lewis Dunn died about February 1785, intestate, leaving the complainant his only child, and a widow who had been dead for some time before the institution of the suit. That Thomas Dunn and Nathaniel Dunn had qualified…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
Wills’ adm’r v. Dunn's adm’r.
The Court is of opinion, that the decree of the County Court is erroneous, so far as it charges Lucy Wills personally, with the balance ascertained to be due from the estate of Thomas Dunn the elder to the estate of Lewis Dunn, without any account or admission shewing assets of the estate of the said Thomas Dunn the elder, in the hands of the said Lucy Wills, sufficient to discharge and satisfy said balance, or any part thereof; and therefore that there is no error in so much of the decree of the Chancellor as reverses and annuls that part of the decree of the…
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