Gills v. Gills
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Campbell county. Decree for defendants. Complainants appeal. This suit was instituted in the summer of 1915 by the appellants, three infant children of John B. Gills, deceased, of the ages of eight, seven and five years, respectively, by their mother, Mary E. Gills, as their next friend.
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Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Campbell county. Decree for defendants. Complainants appeal. This suit was instituted in the summer of 1915 by the appellants, three infant children of John B. Gills, deceased, of the ages of eight, seven and five years, respectively, by their mother, Mary E. Gills, as their next friend. The father of the infants was killed in a dynamite explosion in West Virginia, on May 12, 1911, where he was then at work as a partner in a firm of railroad contractors. His wife, the said mother, and the infant children were living with him at such place of work…
1Opinion of the Court
Sims, J.,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court:
*541There are many questions raised by the assignments and cross-assignments of error which, in the view we take of the case, we find unnecessary to consider. Those questions which, in view of the conclusions we have reached thereon, dispose of the case will be passed upon in their order as stated below.
1. Was the decree of November term, 1915, which appears in the statement preceding this opinion, an interlocutory or a final decree?
[1-4] As laid down in that excellent work, Hogg’s Equity Procedure, Vol.…
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