Kent's Adm'r v. Kent's Adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Wythe county, rendered March, 1884, in a chancery cause wherein Gordon 0. Kent’s administrator was complainant and .James 14. Kent’s administrator and others were defendants.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Wythe county, rendered March, 1884, in a chancery cause wherein Gordon 0. Kent’s administrator was complainant and .James 14. Kent’s administrator and others were defendants. The object of the suit was to obtain relief in equity and to perpetually enjoin a judgment obtained March 12th, 1874, on the law side of said circuit court, by the said defendant against said complainant for $5,600, with interest from June 6th, 1845, till paid, subject to several credits. The decree dissolved the injunction and dismissed the bill.
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
This is a controversy between the administrators of two brothers who were the joint administrators of a deceased brother.
In February, 1850, David F. Kent, of Pulaski county, died intestate, leaving a widow and children, and besides being seized and possessed in his own right of some real estate in the counties of Wythe and Pulaski, and a very large and valuable personal estate, consisting of slaves, horses and cattle, farming implements, and household and kitchen furniture, was possessed of a very valuable real estate in said county of Pulaski, in right of his wife, on which he, with his…
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