Legal Opinion

Carter's Executor's v. Cutting

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided November 19, 1816PublishedCited by 6 opinions

John Browne Cutting and Sally his wife, formerly Sally Carter, widow, and Sally, Mary, Fanny and Landon Carters, infant children of George Carter deceased, by said Cutting their next friend, brought suit in the Superior Court of Chancery, for the Richmond District, in December, 1807, against Landon Carter surviving Executor of the said George Carter, and Fanny Lee and George Carter Executrix and Executor of Thomas Ludmell Lee deceased, who was an Executor of the first named…

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John Browne Cutting and Sally his wife, formerly Sally Carter, widow, and Sally, Mary, Fanny and Landon Carters, infant children of George Carter deceased, by said Cutting their next friend, brought suit in the Superior Court of Chancery, for the Richmond District, in December, 1807, against Landon Carter surviving Executor of the said George Carter, and Fanny Lee and George Carter Executrix and Executor of Thomas Ludmell Lee deceased, who was an Executor of the first named George Carter deceased. The Bill stated, that George Carter, holding large real and personal estates in Stafford and…

1Opinion of the Court

Tuesday, Nov. 19th, 1816. The following was entered as the Opinion and Decree of the Court. (1)

In passing an opinion upon this long and complicated case, in which the Decree of the Court of Chancery seems predicated upon the fourth Report made in the cause, the Court will confine itself to that Report; to the exceptions of the parties thereto; and to points made by the Counsel respectively ; considering, that any inferior and subordinate points, not brought before the Court in one or other of these modes, have been acquiesced in by the parties.

With respect to the exception of Blrs. Lee, the…

2Cited by6 opinions

  1. Trevelyan's Adm'r v. LofftSupreme Court of Virginia · 1887
  2. Armstrong v. StoneSupreme Court of Virginia · 1852
  3. Garrett ex'or of Allen v. CarrSupreme Court of Virginia · 1842
  4. Fred v. DixonSupreme Court of Virginia · 1876
  5. Fred v. DixonSupreme Court of Virginia · 1876

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