Durrett v. Davis
Supreme Court of Virginia
In February 1855 David W. Davis, of Greene county, departed this life intestate, leaving his wife surviving him, and one child, Thomas Davis, of three or four years of age. In Eovember 1857 the Circuit court of Greene county “ sitting in chancery,” appointed Isaac B. Davis guardian of Thomas Davis, and Mrs. Davis seems to have married, on or about that year, E. K. Durrett; her dower in the estate of her first husband not having been assigned to her.
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In February 1855 David W. Davis, of Greene county, departed this life intestate, leaving his wife surviving him, and one child, Thomas Davis, of three or four years of age. In Eovember 1857 the Circuit court of Greene county “ sitting in chancery,” appointed Isaac B. Davis guardian of Thomas Davis, and Mrs. Davis seems to have married, on or about that year, E. K. Durrett; her dower in the estate of her first husband not having been assigned to her. In May 1858 Isaac B. Davis, as guardian of Thomas Davis, instituted a suit in equity in the Circuit court of Greene county, for the sale of the…
1Opinion of the CourtStaples, J.
This case has been very ably and elaborately argued; many authorities have been cited, and much valuable learning displayed. The industry and researches of counsel on both sides have relieved the court of much labor, and rendered unnecessary any extended discussion of the various questions presented by the record. I do not propose to attempt to follow the learned counsel in the wide range they have taken, but simply to give the conclusions to which the court has arrived, with a brief statement of the reasons upon which these conclusions are founded.
It is perhaps better to consider the…
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