Thomas' Adm'r v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Virginia
Argued in Richmond. Decided in Wytheville. Appeal from decree of the chancery court of the city of Richmond, pronounced January 8, 1891, in the cause wherein Bettie Thomas Lewis and her husband were complainants, and W. R. Quarles and Mann S. Quarles, curators of the estate of William R. Thomas, deceased, and Legh R. Page, his administrator, were defendants.
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Argued in Richmond. Decided in Wytheville. Appeal from decree of the chancery court of the city of Richmond, pronounced January 8, 1891, in the cause wherein Bettie Thomas Lewis and her husband were complainants, and W. R. Quarles and Mann S. Quarles, curators of the estate of William R. Thomas, deceased, and Legh R. Page, his administrator, were defendants. The object of the suit was to recover the entire personal property of the intestate under the claim that he had made of it a donation pro causa mortis to her. The chancery court by its decree sustained her claim, except as to the sum of…
1Opinion of the CourtFauntleroy, J.
The petition of Legh R. Page, administrator of "William A. Thomas, deceased, represents that on the 4th of January, 1889, the said "William A. Thomas died intestatp, leaving an estate valued at some two. hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, of which some twenty thousand dollars was realty, eighteen thousand dollars on deposit in the Planters Rational Bank of Richmond, and the balance represented by bonds, stocks, dioses in action, and gold coin, deposited in a rented box in the vaults of the said bank. That on the 14th day of January, 1889, the county court of Henrico county, on the…
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