Cole's committee v. Cole's adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Charlotte county, brought by Paul Y. Adams, committee of Meriwether Cole, a lunatic, against the ad-, ministrator of Walter W. Cole, deceased, a former committee of the lunatic, for a settlement of the account of said Walter W. Cole. The only matter of controversy in the circuit court seems to have been whether Walter W. Cole was entitled to a credit for $1,000, invested under an order of the judge in a Confederate bond.
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This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Charlotte county, brought by Paul Y. Adams, committee of Meriwether Cole, a lunatic, against the ad-, ministrator of Walter W. Cole, deceased, a former committee of the lunatic, for a settlement of the account of said Walter W. Cole. The only matter of controversy in the circuit court seems to have been whether Walter W. Cole was entitled to a credit for $1,000, invested under an order of the judge in a Confederate bond. The court below allowed the credit, and Adams, the committee, obtained an appeal to this court. The case is stated by Judge…
1Opinion of the CourtBures, J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court •of the county of Charlotte, pronounced on the 1st day of April 1871, in a suit brought in the name of the appellant, a person of unsound mind, by his next friend and committee, against the appellee, as administrator of Walter W. Cole, deceased, the former committee of the appellant.
The only object of the suit was to hold the estate of the said Walter W. Cole to account for the sum of $1,000, alleged by the administrator to have been invested by his intestate for the appellant in a bond of the Confederate States, under an order of the judge…
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