Jones' Ex'ors v. Clark
Supreme Court of Virginia
*This was an appeal by the executors of Richard Jones, deceased, from the decree of the Circuit court of Pittsyl-vania, rendered on the 7th of June, 1871, in a cause in which William T. Clark and John W. Holland were plaintiffs, and .said executors and others were defendants.
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*This was an appeal by the executors of Richard Jones, deceased, from the decree of the Circuit court of Pittsyl-vania, rendered on the 7th of June, 1871, in a cause in which William T. Clark and John W. Holland were plaintiffs, and .said executors and others were defendants. Clark and Holland were the sureties of Edmund Fitzgerald, as the executor of William Fitzgerald, deceased; and suit having been brought by the legatees against Edmund Fitzgerald and his sureties for the settlement of his accounts, and that suit having progressed so far as to show that he had wasted the estate to a large…
1Opinion
MONCURE, P.
This case now comes up for decision on a rehearing granted on a single point, viz: as to the effect of the discharge in bankruptcy of Griffith D. Neal in bar of the demand preferred against him in this cause. It has been ingeniously and elaborately argued by counsel, and, my opinion upon it, in addition to what is said on the same subject, in the opinion of the court already delivered in the case, is as follows:
Neal was decreed to. be liable for the demand, on the ground that he fraudulently participated in a devastavit *committed by Edmund Fitzgerald, executor of William…
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