Legal Opinion

Strother v. Hull

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided July 14, 1873Published

This was a suit in equity instituted in July, 1866, in the Circuit court of the county of Smyth, and after-wards transferred to the Circuit court of the county of Tazewell, hy D. D. Hull and six others, children of Thomas T. Hull, deceased, against Wade I). Strother, adm’r de bonis non with the will annexed of said Thomas T. Hull, and his sureties, for a settlement of'his accounts, and the distribution of the estate.

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This was a suit in equity instituted in July, 1866, in the Circuit court of the county of Smyth, and after-wards transferred to the Circuit court of the county of Tazewell, hy D. D. Hull and six others, children of Thomas T. Hull, deceased, against Wade I). Strother, adm’r de bonis non with the will annexed of said Thomas T. Hull, and his sureties, for a settlement of'his accounts, and the distribution of the estate. Thomas T. Hull died in 1854, having made his will, which was duly admitted to probate in the County court of Smyth. He left eight children, all of them infants under the age of…

1Opinion of the CourtBouldin, J.

Ve will consider the questions arising in this case, in the_ order in which they have been presented: noticing, first, the errors assigned in the petition for an appeal; secondly, those assigned in the appellant’s brief; and lastly, the errors assigned by the appellees.

The first, second and fifth errors relied on in the petition for appeal, have been waived by the appellants, and need not, therefore, be further considered.

The subject of the third assignment of errors is the charge against the appellant Strother of $230, being the estimated value of certain household furniture belonging to his…

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