Knight v. Watts's Adm'rs
West Virginia Supreme Court
GREEN, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the ease: Michael Buuger died in Greenbrier county, West Virginia, in 1859, leaving real and personal property worth about $20,-000.00. By his will .he bequeathed his beds, bedsteads and bedding, and his library of books, to his five daughters and to his grandson, William D. Littlepage, a son of a deceased daughter; and he directed that the share of the bedding belonging to this grandson should be in the charge of the…
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GREEN, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the ease: Michael Buuger died in Greenbrier county, West Virginia, in 1859, leaving real and personal property worth about $20,-000.00. By his will .he bequeathed his beds, bedsteads and bedding, and his library of books, to his five daughters and to his grandson, William D. Littlepage, a son of a deceased daughter; and he directed that the share of the bedding belonging to this grandson should be in the charge of the testator’s daughter, Nancy Kincaid, and that his portion of the library of books should beheld by the testator’s executors, or…
1Opinion of the Court
Green, Judge:. The clearest mode of determining the numerous legal questions necessary to he decided in order to determine the decree, which should be entered by this Court in this cause, it seems to me, is to consider in their order the legal errors, which have been committed by James F. Watts and John D. Kincaid as executors of Michael Hunger and as trustees of William D. Littlepage, and also those committed by James F. Watts as committee of William I). Littlepage, and the effect, which such errors ought to have produced in the settlement of the accounts of these executors and trustees and…
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