Western Lunatic Asylum v. Miller

Snyder, Judge:

In the year 1850, William Irby, a lunatic from Cabell county, was taken to the Western Lunatic Asylum, at Staun-ton, Virginia, where he remained as a patient until his death in the year 1863. Peter C. Buffington was appointed committee of the estate of Irby, and in 1854 brought suit in the Circuit Court of Cabell county for the sale of his ward’s lands in that county, alleging in his bill that the lands were unproductive and a sale and investment of the proceeds would ]ie advantageous to the estate, and also that a portion of .said *328proceeds were necessary to pay the debts and…