Boisseau v. Boisseau
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of corporation court of Danville, entered 4th August, 1882, in the cause of P. H. Boisseau against Wm. E. Boisseau, guardian of four infant' children of G. W. Davis, deceased.
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Appeal from decree of corporation court of Danville, entered 4th August, 1882, in the cause of P. H. Boisseau against Wm. E. Boisseau, guardian of four infant' children of G. W. Davis, deceased. The object of the suit was to enforce-the vendor’s lien for $750, with interest from June 1st, 1877, till paid, at the rate of eight per centum per annum, being the unpaid balance of the purchase money for a house and lot in Danville that was sold and conveyed by plaintiff to said guardian, who had paid cash thereon $750 of the wards’ funds. The infant defendants, by their mother and next friend,…
1Opinion of the CourtHinton, J.
It appears by the record of this case that William E. Boisseau qualified in the year 1876, as guardian of the infant children of George W. Davis, deceased, and, as such guardian, received the sum of $800 from the proceeds of their father’s life insurance; and that this sum constituted the whole estate of, these infants at that time. That on the 1st of June, 1877, the said guardian purchased of one P. H. Boisseau a certain house and lot in the town of Danville, Va., at the price of $1,500; that this purchase was made hy the guardian at the instance of the mother of the infant children, who…
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