Allen's Ex'x v. Shriver's Adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decrees of chancery court of the city of Richmond, rendered August 10th, 1869; May 14th, 1883; June 23rd, 1883, and July 11th, 1883, respectively, in the two causes, heard together, therein pending, under the style of Jessup v. Allen, and of Roland’s Administrator v. Burt’s Executor.
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Appeal from decrees of chancery court of the city of Richmond, rendered August 10th, 1869; May 14th, 1883; June 23rd, 1883, and July 11th, 1883, respectively, in the two causes, heard together, therein pending, under the style of Jessup v. Allen, and of Roland’s Administrator v. Burt’s Executor. The objects of the suits were to settle the partnership accounts of Roland & Shriver, and the accounts of the personal representatives of Jacob M. Shriver, deceased, and to ascertain and satisfy to "William Allen’s estate the balance due it for a tract of about 3,000 acres of land, sold in the…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The bill was filed in the suit Jessup v. Allen in June, 1866, in the circuit court of Richmond city, and upon the institution of the chancery court, under the new Constitution, in 1870, the suit was removed to that court, from which court it has once before been before this court on appeal.
The bill, which was by James Jessup, executor of Jacob M. Shriver, deceased, and in his own right, set forth that sometime in the year 1859, and probably towards its close, Jacob M. Shriver formed a co-partnership with one William C. Roland for the purpose of carrying on the wood and lumber business, and…
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