Major v. Ficklin
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Oulpeper county, rendered September 15th, 1887, in a chancery cause wherein Thomas K. Chandler, executor of Jane I. Ficldin, deceased, was complainant, and Elias Compton and Landon O. Maj'or were defendants.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Oulpeper county, rendered September 15th, 1887, in a chancery cause wherein Thomas K. Chandler, executor of Jane I. Ficldin, deceased, was complainant, and Elias Compton and Landon O. Maj'or were defendants. Compton filed a cross-bill against the complainant and his co-defendant, Major, praying affirmative relief against the latter, and the decree being adverse to Major, he obtained an appeal and supersedeas from one of the judges of this court. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The case is as follows: One George Ficklin died in the year 1852, leaving a large real estate, a widow and seven children surviving him. In the year 1853 the said children brought a suit in chancery in the circuit court of Culpeper county, under the style of Coons and Wife v. Ficklin’s Adm’r, &c., seeking a partition of the said real estate, and praying that the dower of the widow, Jane I. Ficklin, might be commuted by the payment of an annuity. This was done, the annuity fixed at §640, and §10,000 in the bonds of the corporation of Fredericksburg, then believed to be ample, set aside to…
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