Otey v. Stuart
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Wythe county, pronounced at September term, 1890, in a suit in chancery wherein the appellants were the complainants, and the appellee was the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
*715This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Wythe county in a suit brought by the appellants, Peter J. Otey and wife, and John Floyd, the two latter being the surviving heirs at law of B. R. Floyd, deceased, against William A. Stuart and others, appellees.
The bill alleges that B. R. Floyd departed this life in the year 1860, intestate, leaving a widow and three children— the oldest child being fifteen years, and the youngest, one year of age; that soon after the death of the decedent, his administrator, Robert Gibboney, filed a bill in the Circuit Court of Wythe county for the…
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