Updike's Adm'r v. Lane
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Eappahannock county, rendered March 23d, 1881, in chancery suit of John G. Lane v. the appellants, R. L. Rudasilla, administrator of John Updike, deceased; B. F. Updike, Lewis Bolen and Hannah, his wife; Thomas Harris, Daniel J. Updike, Susan A. Rowles, and the administrator of Eura Updike, and others, defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
On the 19th day of September, 1846, Henry Miller and John Updike executed their bond to the appellee, Lane, for $825, with interest from the 1st day of October, 1846, and payable one year thereafter. They were neighbors, residing on adjacent farms in Rappahannock county. Miller was a man of large means; Updike comparatively poor. Updike died in January, 1848, leaving personalty barely sufficient to pay his debts, and the owner of 416 acres of land estimated to be worth $5,304, and leaving a widow entitled to dower, and six children, his heirs at law. During the same year, under a decree of…
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