Alexander v. Alexander
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Pulaski county, entered at its March term, 1886, in the chancery cause wherein James O. Alexander and Sue J., his wife, were complainants, and H. Alexander, J. B. Alexander, M. J. Alexander, and J. O. Alexander, the last four trading as partners under the name of J. B. Alexander & Go., were defendants. The decree being unfavorable to them, the complainants obtained an appeal. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtHinton, J.
As this case involves to some extent the construction of the act of assembly passed April 4, 1877, entitled “an act securing to married women, on conditions, all property acquired hy them before or after marriage,” see Acts 1876-77, ch. 329, p. 333, it is deemed advisable to set out in detail the sources from which the property claimed as the separate estate of the fema'e appellant was derived.
On the 6th day of May, 1874, as fully appears by the record, Sue J. Boyd, a femme sole, received, as a legatee of one Anne Davidson, the sum of $1,000 which, very soon after, to wit: in May, 1875, she…
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