Hedrick's Admr. v. Hopkins
West Virginia Supreme Court
This was an appeal from a decree of the .circuit court of Pendleton county, rendered on the 17th day of November, 1871. At November rules, 1871, Elizabeth Hedrick, who was an insane person, and sued by her son and next friend, Adam Hedrick, filed her bill in the clerk’s office ■of said circuit court alleging that she was a widow and that she was a daughter of George Kile, then deceased leaving a considerable estate, to which she was entitled, as such daughter; but that the…
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This was an appeal from a decree of the .circuit court of Pendleton county, rendered on the 17th day of November, 1871. At November rules, 1871, Elizabeth Hedrick, who was an insane person, and sued by her son and next friend, Adam Hedrick, filed her bill in the clerk’s office ■of said circuit court alleging that she was a widow and that she was a daughter of George Kile, then deceased leaving a considerable estate, to which she was entitled, as such daughter; but that the court, deeming her incapable of managing said estate, appointed one Laban Smith as her committee, who qualified as such;…
1Opinion of the Court
Paull, Judge :
The original bill in this case was filed by the plaintiff against defendant, as her committee, in the circuit court of Pendleton county, in the year of 1867.
In April, 1871, the plaintiff having departed this life, her administrator, Daniel H. Acrey, obtained leave of the court, to file an amended bill, making the sureties of the defendant Hopkins, in his bond as committee, parties to this suit. Accordingly, a summons was sued out of the clerk’s office ,of the cii’cuit court of said county, directing George W. Dice, Jacob F. Johnson, David C. Anderson, John E. Wilson and Benjamin…
2Cited by1 opinion
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