Moss v. Moorman's Adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
Samuel P. R. Moorman, of the county of Bedford, departed this life in October or November 1861, leaving surviving him, his widow and three children.
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Samuel P. R. Moorman, of the county of Bedford, departed this life in October or November 1861, leaving surviving him, his widow and three children. He left a will which had been made on the 3d of'November 1852, by which, after directing the payment of his just debts, he gave to his widow, for her life, the tract of land on which he lived, and another adjoining, with all the stock, provender, furniture, plantation tools, wagons, horses, &c., and six negroes which she should select, and two hundred dollars. The rest of his estate, except his slaves, he directed to be converted into money;…
1Opinion of the Court
Moncure, P.
There are four assignments of error in this case, three of them made by the counsel of the appellants in the petition of appeal, and one of them by the counsel of the appellee, Holland, in his printed argument. I will first consider those of the appellants.
1st. They assign as error, that a certain debt due to the testator, Samuel P. R. Moorman, at his death, by one Wesley Peters, and collected by the administrator, James F. Johnson, in May and July 1863, was charged to the administrator, in the settlement of his accounts, at the scaled value of so much Confederate currency at the…
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