Adie v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
In August 1872, Archibald Adie, or Radie, and others, claiming to be heirs at law of James Adie or Radie, who was a native of Scotland, filed their petition in the Circuit court of the city of Richmond, in which, after setting out their relationship as heirs and next of kin to James Adie or Radie of Scotland, and that said James had come to Virginia and died in the county of Hanover about the year 1850, they state that in 1860 the estate of James Adie had been escheated for…
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In August 1872, Archibald Adie, or Radie, and others, claiming to be heirs at law of James Adie or Radie, who was a native of Scotland, filed their petition in the Circuit court of the city of Richmond, in which, after setting out their relationship as heirs and next of kin to James Adie or Radie of Scotland, and that said James had come to Virginia and died in the county of Hanover about the year 1850, they state that in 1860 the estate of James Adie had been escheated for want of any known heirs or next of kin, and that there had been paid into the treasury of the State, in pursuance of…
1Opinion of the CourtBourdin, J.
In August 1850, one James Adie, a native of Scotland, and stonemason by trade, died near Hanover Junction, in Hanover county, where he was engaged in stone work on the Rouisa railroad, now the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. He died intestate, unmarried, and without known descendants; and under proceedings instituted by the attorney for *the commonwealth of Hanover county, his estate was declared derelict, and es-cheated to the commonwealth for the benefit of the literary fund.
Under the decree in the cause, the administrator, on the 8th day of November 1860, paid into the public treasury the…
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