Mayor's Ex'or v. Carrington's Ex'or
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an appeal from a decree of the Circuit court of the city of Richmond, made on the 26th of February 1868, in three suits, styled Mayo v. Carrington, *Coutts v. Mayo, and Coutts’ adm’r v. Mayo. The case was argued by R. T. Daniel, for the appellants, and by Roberts, Sands, C. Robinson and Griswold, for the different appellees.
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This was an appeal from a decree of the Circuit court of the city of Richmond, made on the 26th of February 1868, in three suits, styled Mayo v. Carrington, *Coutts v. Mayo, and Coutts’ adm’r v. Mayo. The case was argued by R. T. Daniel, for the appellants, and by Roberts, Sands, C. Robinson and Griswold, for the different appellees. But the questions disputed were rather questions of fact than of law ; and the facts, as they were viewed by the court, are stated in the opinion of the President of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
MONCURF, P.
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit court of the city of Richmond in three suits, the styles of which were “Mayo v. Carrington,” “Coutts v. Mayo.” and “Coutts’ adm’r v. Mayo,” the printed record of which contains S50 pages. The difficulty of deciding it is necessarily very great, and is much increased by the obscurity arising from lapse of time, the extraordinary laches of most of the parties concerned, and the death of all the original actors in the transactions which gave rise to the suits. The subject of controversy is what is familiarly known by the name of the…
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