Campbell's Adm'r v. White
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from a final decree of the circuit court of Jefferson county, rendered on tbc 30th day of December, 1871, in two canses heard together, in one of which Trueman "W. Potterfiold administrator of John W. Campbell, deceased, was plaintiff, and N. S. White, trustee and others were defendants, and in the other of which O. So Jannoy and others were plaintiff? and John H. Campbell’s administrator was defendant, and also from a decree entered in said causes on the 17th day of…
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Appeal from a final decree of the circuit court of Jefferson county, rendered on tbc 30th day of December, 1871, in two canses heard together, in one of which Trueman "W. Potterfiold administrator of John W. Campbell, deceased, was plaintiff, and N. S. White, trustee and others were defendants, and in the other of which O. So Jannoy and others were plaintiff? and John H. Campbell’s administrator was defendant, and also from a decree entered in said causes on the 17th day of November, 1875, allowed on the petition oí O. S. Jannoy and others. Hon. E. B. Hall, late judge of the third judicial…
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, Judge
It is urged by tbe appellants, that tbe court erred in tbe order of September 17, 1869, by instructing tbe commissioner, that in settling John H. Campbell’s administration account, “the settlement heretofore made before commissioner Stone, and approved by tbe county court of Jefferson, is to be taken as correct, except so far as the same, or any of the items therein, shall be 'proven to be other-wiseFirst — “ because tbe allegations of the bill, if true, deprived that document of all weight and credit as a fiduciary account, and as that bill was not answered, and was taken for confessed, tbe…
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