Rowe v. Marchant
Supreme Court of Virginia
Heard at Richmond. Decided at Wytheville. Appeal from decree of circuit court of Gloucester county, rendered March 11, 1887, in a suit wherein Thomas Marcliant was complainant and Thomas B. Rowe’s administrators were defendants. The decree being adverse to the administrators they appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Lacy, L,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The bill was filed in this suit by the appellee against the appellants, as the administrators of Thomas B. Rowe, to collect certain debts claimed against the said estate by the plaintiff, *178and to have a settlement of the estate in their hands for the benefit of the plaintiff and all other creditors who should come in on the usual terms. The answer denied the existence of any debts, admitting that the debts claimed once existed, but only as advancements, and alleging that they were barred by the statute of limitations. The case appears to be as…
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