Price's v. Harrison's
Supreme Court of Virginia
This case was before this court in 1874, and is reported in 25 Gratt. 553. "When the cause went back to the circuit court of Brunswick that court referred it to a commissioner to take an account of the administration of the executor, John H. Lewis, upon the estate of "William B. Price, and of the debts of Price with their priorities. The commissioner returned his report in April, 1877, with exceptions thereto filed by the plaintiffs and two other parties creditors of Price.
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This case was before this court in 1874, and is reported in 25 Gratt. 553. "When the cause went back to the circuit court of Brunswick that court referred it to a commissioner to take an account of the administration of the executor, John H. Lewis, upon the estate of "William B. Price, and of the debts of Price with their priorities. The commissioner returned his report in April, 1877, with exceptions thereto filed by the plaintiffs and two other parties creditors of Price. The questions arising out of these exceptions will appear from the following facts: "Wm. B. Price died in June, 1865. In…
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
The first assignment of error by the counsel for the appellants presents the main question for decision in this ease, and that is, whether in the payment of the debts of the decedent, William B. Price, out of the assets in the hands of his personal representative, priority is accorded by law to the debt owing by said decedent as trustee for the children of E. B. Hicks, the assets being insufficient to discharge all of the debts,
Price died in June, 1865, and the statute then in force provided that where the assets of the decedent in the hands of his personal representative, after the payment…
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