Small's adm'r v. Lumpkin's ex'x
Supreme Court of Virginia
This case was argued in Richmond, at the March term of^ the court, and decided at Wytheville. It was a suit in equity in the nature of a creditor’s bill, in the chancery court of Richmoud, brought in November 1870, by the administrator de bonis non of Thomas B. Small, against the executrix and devisees of Robert R. Lumpkin, deceased, to subject the real estate of said Lumpkin to satisfy a debt of $4,500, with interest from the 1st day of June 1858. Thomas B. Small was a…
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This case was argued in Richmond, at the March term of^ the court, and decided at Wytheville. It was a suit in equity in the nature of a creditor’s bill, in the chancery court of Richmoud, brought in November 1870, by the administrator de bonis non of Thomas B. Small, against the executrix and devisees of Robert R. Lumpkin, deceased, to subject the real estate of said Lumpkin to satisfy a debt of $4,500, with interest from the 1st day of June 1858. Thomas B. Small was a resident of Baltimore, and died there in March 1861. Lumpkin lived in Richmond, and died there in 1866. By bond bearing date…
1Opinion of the Court
Burks, J.'
In a foreign or international w&r, from the time it is declared or recognized, all the people in the territory and subject to the dominion of each belligerent, without regard to their feelings, dispositions or natural relations, become, in legal contemplation, and so continue to the close of hostilities, the enemies of all the people resident in the territory of the other belligerent; and all negotiation, trading, intercourse or communication between them, unless licensed by the government, is unlawful. Such a war, as between the citizens or subjects of the respective belligerents,…
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