Hill v. Woodward
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of King William county, entered June 3d, 1881, in the cause of Bobert A. Woodward, administrator of Eliza Meredith, deceased, and others, creditors of Wm. Hill, deceased, against Walker Hill, administrator, Catherine B. Hill, widow, and Walker Hill, and six other children and heirs of said Wm. Hill, deceased. Object of suit was to subject decedent Wm. Hill’s estate to pay his debts.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of King William county, entered June 3d, 1881, in the cause of Bobert A. Woodward, administrator of Eliza Meredith, deceased, and others, creditors of Wm. Hill, deceased, against Walker Hill, administrator, Catherine B. Hill, widow, and Walker Hill, and six other children and heirs of said Wm. Hill, deceased. Object of suit was to subject decedent Wm. Hill’s estate to pay his debts. It was brought in circuit court of New Kent county, to October rules 1878. Widow’s name does not appear in process returned executed. Bill was filed at January rules 1879, and…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
In the petition for appeal several errors are assigned, but in his note of argument the counsel for the appellant confines the discussion to the single point, that the appellant was not made a party to the suit in the court below.
In the logical order of discussion it is contended by counsel for the appellees (1) that the record sufficiently shows that the appellant had been properly made a party, and (2) that even if she had not been, she is estopped by her conduct from denying it.
This is a case in which a party, under very peculiar circumstances of apparent neglect, comes forward at the…
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