Harman v. Davis
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Tazewell county, rendered on the 18th of November, 1875, in a cause in which Nancy Harman and her two children, who were infants, were plaintiffs, and J. Mosby Davis, administrator of E. H. Harman, deceased, and his sureties were defendants.
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This was an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Tazewell county, rendered on the 18th of November, 1875, in a cause in which Nancy Harman and her two children, who were infants, were plaintiffs, and J. Mosby Davis, administrator of E. H. Harman, deceased, and his sureties were defendants. The decree from which the appeal was taken, was rendered upon a bill of review by the defendants to review and reverse a previous decree in favor of the plaintiffs, rendered by consent of all the parties. The court reversed the first decree, and the plaintiffs obtained an appeal. The case is stated…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
A bill was filed at the June rules of the ccunty court of Tazewell county by Mrs. Nancy Harman, widow of Edwin. H. Harman, deceased, and her infant sons, Charles W. Harman and Davis K. Harman, heirs and distributees of the. said decedent, against John Mosby Davis, the administrator of the said E. W. Harman, deceased, and Henry B. Harman and Reuben C. Fudge, his sureties in his administration bond, for their distributive shares in the estate *of said decedent. The bill alleges that for a number of years previous to the death of E. H. Harman, he and the said J. M. Davis had been in partnership…
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