Green's Adm'r v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court .of Culpeper county, rendered June 8th, 1885, in the chancery suit wherein Samuel W. Thompson, in his own right, and as administrator of George C. Thompson, deceased, was complainant, and J. Ambler Brooke, administrator d. b. n. of John Cooke Green, deceased, Anne S: Green, executrix of James W. Green, deceased, B. Pulliam, administrator of F. J. Thompson, deceased, and others, were defendants.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court .of Culpeper county, rendered June 8th, 1885, in the chancery suit wherein Samuel W. Thompson, in his own right, and as administrator of George C. Thompson, deceased, was complainant, and J. Ambler Brooke, administrator d. b. n. of John Cooke Green, deceased, Anne S: Green, executrix of James W. Green, deceased, B. Pulliam, administrator of F. J. Thompson, deceased, and others, were defendants. The object of the suit was to enjoin a sale of certain land under a trust deed, and to procure a re-settlement of certain administration accounts. The decree being…
1DissentFauntleroy, J.
I dissent, wholly, from the opinion of the majority of the court in this case.
A statement of the facts, as they are disclosed by the record, will fully illustrate the justice and the reasons why I do not concur.
In the year 1855, Francis J. Thompson died intestate, in the county of Culpeper, leaving his widow, Martha H. Thompson, and two sons, George C. Thompson, who resided in the city of Baltimore, and Francis J. Thompson, Jr., who was also a non-resident of Virginia, as distributees of his personal estate and heirs-at-law of his realty.
He had been a retired merchant, living on the interest…
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