Bell v. Moon
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Lynchburg, entered 3 8th day of May, 1882, in the cause of J. P. Bell and Emma K., his wife, against Littleberry Moon, as committee, and afterwards as administrator of E. K. Gilbert, deceased. Argued at Richmond, but decided at Wytheville. Gilbert had married Moon’s daughter in 1850. Before his marriage he sold goods at Merry Oaks, in Pittsylvania county; was unfortunate in business.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Lynchburg, entered 3 8th day of May, 1882, in the cause of J. P. Bell and Emma K., his wife, against Littleberry Moon, as committee, and afterwards as administrator of E. K. Gilbert, deceased. Argued at Richmond, but decided at Wytheville. Gilbert had married Moon’s daughter in 1850. Before his marriage he sold goods at Merry Oaks, in Pittsylvania county; was unfortunate in business. Sold out to Edmund Clark; took his three bonds for $1,555.43 ; got Moon to cash them, transferring them without endorsement; borrowed $667.10 from Moon, and other sums from…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
The transactions most called in question by the plaintiffs below, the appellants here, occurred in 1850, and had remained unquestioned, and, so far as disclosed by the record, without any suspicion on the part of Moon, for more than thirty years, that they could or would ever be called in question. The female appellant is the daughter of said E. K. Gilbert, and the granddaughter of said Moon. From circumstances disclosed by the record, the fact appears that certain influences, not in themselves commendable, had been secretly at work fomenting this litigation for some years prior to its…
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