Rayfield v. Gaines
Supreme Court of Virginia
*This was a bill filed in the Circuit court of Gloucester county in 1859, by William 13. Gaines, in his own right, and as administrator of his deceased wife Ann B. Gaines, the daughter of Lewis B. Callis deceased, and Amanda Gaines, an infant child of William 13. Gaines and said Ann B., by her next friend, against William Rayfield and his wife Elizabeth, and another child of Lewis B. Callis, and others, to have an account of the estate, and of the administration of the…
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*This was a bill filed in the Circuit court of Gloucester county in 1859, by William 13. Gaines, in his own right, and as administrator of his deceased wife Ann B. Gaines, the daughter of Lewis B. Callis deceased, and Amanda Gaines, an infant child of William 13. Gaines and said Ann B., by her next friend, against William Rayfield and his wife Elizabeth, and another child of Lewis B. Callis, and others, to have an account of the estate, and of the administration of the defendants as executors of Lewis B. Callis, and a decree for one-third of the estate. Lewis B. Callis died in the latter part…
1Opinion of the CourtJoynes, J.
Rewis B. Callis died in the latter part of 1840, leaving one child, Ann B., who subsequently intermarried with the appellee William E- Gaines, and a 'widow who was enciente of another'child, who was afterwards born, and is the appellee Elizabeth R. Callis. The widow intermarried in 1842 with William Rayfield; and by a marriage contract, among other provisions which need not be specified, the property which Mrs. Callis took by the will of her first husband was conveyed to a trustee for the benefit of Rayfield, the second husband, during her life.
After the death of Mrs. Gaines, the…
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