Todd v. Moore's adm'r.
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a bill exhibited by Todd and wife against Avery the administrator of Moore, in the snperiour court of chancery of Richmond, setting forth, That Mrs. Todd was the only child of J. T. Tee, who died in 1795. That in the same year, administration of Lee’s estate was granted to Moore, by the county court of Prince George.
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This was a bill exhibited by Todd and wife against Avery the administrator of Moore, in the snperiour court of chancery of Richmond, setting forth, That Mrs. Todd was the only child of J. T. Tee, who died in 1795. That in the same year, administration of Lee’s estate was granted to Moore, by the county court of Prince George. That he returned an inventory and appraisement of his intestate’s chattels, but never settled his accounts of administration; and that he was indebted to the estate. That he permitted the sheriff to sell a female slave, named Eve, under execution for a debt due from the…
1Opinion of the CourtCarr, J.
recapitulated the facts, and said, he was of opinion, that the decree dismissing the bill was right. It is due to the quiet of families, and to justice, that these old settlements should be suffered to sleep in their graves, and not be dug up, to frighten and disturb the descendants of *461those who were parties. Lee died in 1795. In the same year, Moore qualified as his administrator: and he lived till 1822. Mrs. Todd married in 1810; and in that year, her husband was told all the facts concerning the sale of Eve, and that he ought then to sue; yet this suit was not brought till late in 1823,…
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