Rice v. Hartman
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Fauquier county, rendered December 20th, 1883, in the consolidated causes of Hartman and others against Hartman’s administrator and others, and James M. Rice against Hartman’s administrator and others. The decree being adverse to James M. Rice, he obtained an appeal to this court.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The bill alleges that, by a contract between the complainant and the intestate, Peter Hartman, the latter bound himself to make provision by his will for the complainant or his family, and that he died without doing so. By reason whereof, it is further alleged, the complainant is a creditor of the estate in a large sum, which he puts at fifteen thousand dollars. The administrator and the widow and heirs at law are made defendants to the bill, and its prayer is that the amount of the complainant’s debt be ascertained by a reference to a master…
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