Thomas' Adm'r v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Virginia
Argued in Richmond. Decided in Wytheville. Appeal from decree of the chancery court of the city of Richmond, pronounced January 8, 1891, in the cause wherein Bettie Thomas Lewis and her husband were complainants, and W. R. Quarles and Mann S. Quarles, curators of the estate of William R. Thomas, deceased, and Legh R. Page, his administrator, were defendants.
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Argued in Richmond. Decided in Wytheville. Appeal from decree of the chancery court of the city of Richmond, pronounced January 8, 1891, in the cause wherein Bettie Thomas Lewis and her husband were complainants, and W. R. Quarles and Mann S. Quarles, curators of the estate of William R. Thomas, deceased, and Legh R. Page, his administrator, were defendants. The object of the suit was to recover the entire personal property of the intestate under the claim that he had made of it a donation pro causa mortis to her. The chancery court by its decree sustained her claim, except as to the sum of…
1Dissent
Lacy, J.,
(dissenting) said :
As appears from the opinion of the majority of the court, this is a suit to enforce against the administrator of a dead man’s estate an alleged gift of the whole estate, amounting to over $200,000, which alleged gift is claimed to have been made by the decedent in disregard of all of his heirs and distributees, his next of kin, a few minutes before his death, to a colored woman living in his house, who claims to be the result of illicit intercourse with a colored slave woman.
*72It also appears from the opinion of the majority that the alleged gift consisted of goods…
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