Anderson v. Piercy
West Virginia Supreme Court
* (SNYDER, Judge, Absent.) Appeal from two decrees of the circuit court of the county of Greenbrier rendered respectively on the 18th day of June, 1879, and on the 12th day of November, 1879, and a: superseded.s to a portion of the last named decree in a cause in said court then pending, wherein Peter L.- Anderson and others were plaintiffs and George Piercy, executor, and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of plaintiffs.
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* (SNYDER, Judge, Absent.) Appeal from two decrees of the circuit court of the county of Greenbrier rendered respectively on the 18th day of June, 1879, and on the 12th day of November, 1879, and a: superseded.s to a portion of the last named decree in a cause in said court then pending, wherein Peter L.- Anderson and others were plaintiffs and George Piercy, executor, and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of plaintiffs. Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from. Green, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: John…
1Judgment of the CourtGreen, Judge
The only difficult questions really involved in this record are: Wliat are the principles involved in the settlement of an executorial account and their application to the facts and circumstances appearing in this cause ? And these are the only questions, which have been argued in this cause in this Court. It is true, the answer of the executor' sets up two objections to the consideration of the cause by the circuit court. The first is, that there was then pending in that court another suit brought by George Piercy executor or John Piercy sr., in which there had been a decree for the…
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