Barnes v. Trafton
Supreme Court of Virginia
1-leard at Richmond and decided at Wytheville. Appeal from two decrees of the circuit court of Princess Anne county, rendered in the cause of Mary S. Berry, infant, by her next friend, against William A. Barnes, guardian, and his sureties on his official bond,-aud in the cause of Isaac B. Berry, infant, by his next friend, against the same. The first cause was revived in the name of John W. Trafton and wife as complainants, upon the intermarriage of Mary S. Berry with him.
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1-leard at Richmond and decided at Wytheville. Appeal from two decrees of the circuit court of Princess Anne county, rendered in the cause of Mary S. Berry, infant, by her next friend, against William A. Barnes, guardian, and his sureties on his official bond,-aud in the cause of Isaac B. Berry, infant, by his next friend, against the same. The first cause was revived in the name of John W. Trafton and wife as complainants, upon the intermarriage of Mary S. Berry with him. The object of the suits was to surcharge the accounts of the guardian, and to recover the amounts respectively due his…
1Opinion of the CourtRechardsoN, J.
These were suits in equity in the circuit court of Princess *526Anne county, brought in February, 1876. The first named •suit was originally brought in the name of Mary S. Berry, an •infant, by T. S. Berry, her next friend, against her gaurdian, William A. Barnes, and his sureties, and pending the suit the ■said Mary S. Berry having become of age and intermarried with John W. Trafton, the suit was thereafter, by order of •court prosecuted in the name of said Trafton and wife. The ■other suit was brought and prosecuted in the name of Isaac B. Berry, an infant, by T. S. Berry, his next friend,…
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