Hobson's Administrator v. Hobson's Administrator

Cardwell, J.,

delivered the opinion, of th.e court.

This is the second appeal from decrees of the Circuit Court, of Powhatan county in this cause, the first being from a decree-of April 18, 1901, when this court held that the decree did not come within the scope of section 3454 of the Code, and dismissed the appeal as improvidently awarded. Hobson v. Hobson, 100 Va. 216, 40 S. E. 899.

John H. Hobson owned a tract of 552 acres of land in Powhatan county, and plantation tools, vehicles, horses, cattle, etc.,, such as are usually found on farms in that county. His son, B. A. Hobson, an only child,…