Watkins v. Stewart
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of corporation court of city of Alexandria, rendered 13tli October, 1880, in cause wlierein Virginia Stewart is complainant and J. 0. O’Neal, administrator of Jobn T. Evans, Sr., deceased; Mary C. Watkins, and. Others, are defendants.
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Appeal from decree of corporation court of city of Alexandria, rendered 13tli October, 1880, in cause wlierein Virginia Stewart is complainant and J. 0. O’Neal, administrator of Jobn T. Evans, Sr., deceased; Mary C. Watkins, and. Others, are defendants. The object of this suit was to bold the administrator-accountable for $6,000 of the bonds of the W. & O. Railroad. ■Company and a note for $4,000 on said company and secured by $12,000 of said bonds, which in 1875 Avere appraised at seventy cents in the dollar, but Avhich, by sudden •default of the company, became entirely Avorthless in 1877.…
1Opinion of the CourtHinton, J.
Some time prior to the 16th of October, 1875, John T. Evans, Sr., died intestate, whereupon J. C. O’Neal qualified as his administrator, and promptly returned and had recorded the inventory and appraisement required by law.
On the 2d of October, 1879, Virginia Stewart, a daughter and distributee of the said Evans, instituted this suit. In her bill she alleges that her late father had four children, amongst whom she includes the appellant, Mary C. Watkins, and a son, John T. Evans, Jr., who had not been heard of for seven years, and who was believed to be dead; that the administrator had made a…
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