Sheldon v. Armstead's Adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
Gill Armstead and William Armstead were brothers and partners in business, residing in the county of New Kent. Gill Armstead died in the year seventeen hundred and sixty-two, having first made his will which was duly admitted to record, by which he gave his slaves and personal estate to be equally divided among *his six children as they should come of age or marry; and he appointed his wife Betty, his brothers William and John Armstead, and his friends Richard Allen, sen.,…
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Gill Armstead and William Armstead were brothers and partners in business, residing in the county of New Kent. Gill Armstead died in the year seventeen hundred and sixty-two, having first made his will which was duly admitted to record, by which he gave his slaves and personal estate to be equally divided among *his six children as they should come of age or marry; and he appointed his wife Betty, his brothers William and John Armstead, and his friends Richard Allen, sen., Richmond Allen, and Dudley Williams, sen., his executrix and executors; all of whom qualified. Previous to April 1784,…
1Opinion of the CourtAbben, J.
The Court is of opinion, that the amount and validity of the claim of Gill Arm-stead’s legatees against *the estate of William Armstead deceased, were ascertained and adjudged by the decree of the Chancery court of the 1st of June 1816. That although the said decree was reversed by the decree of this Court, pronounced on the 11th of December 1821, for formal errors, yet the mode of settling the accounts between said William Armstead and the estate of Gill Armstead was directly passed upon by the Court of appeals, and so much of the decree of the 1st June 1816, as ascertained the amount of the…
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