Reid's Adm'r v. Strider's Adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a motion upon notice by Hunter, administrator of Reid, to set aside a decree of this Court made at the April term 1845. The case is .reported in 2 Grattan 34. The ground of the motion was, that before the case was argued or decided, the appellee Strider had died.
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This was a motion upon notice by Hunter, administrator of Reid, to set aside a decree of this Court made at the April term 1845. The case is .reported in 2 Grattan 34. The ground of the motion was, that before the case was argued or decided, the appellee Strider had died. It appeared that Strider died in March 1845; and that the cause was argued in April and decided in May of that year, without a revival of the suit against his administrator, or a suggestion of his death upon the record.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The case presented for our consideration is briefly this: Reid, the owner of a negro boy, on which he had given a deed of trust, agreed with Strider to place him in his possession till the 1st of January 1834, when Reid was to refund the money secured by the trust deed, (which Strider undertook to discharge,) and take back the boy, or receive the balance he should then be worth at a fair valuation, and make a good title for him. Reid failed to perform the condition, and afterwards his administrator brought a suit in equity to redeem the slave, upon the allegation that the transaction was a…
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