Blackwell's Adm'r v. Bragg
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal of J. W. Ellis, sheriff of Lunenburg county, and as such administrator de bonis non with the will annexed of E. Blackwell, deceased, from decree of circuit court of said county, rendered 6th October, 1881, in the chancery cause styled Bragg, Trustee, and others v. Blackwell’s Adm’r and others. In 1839, E. Blackwell qualified as guardian of Upton E. Hardy.
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Appeal of J. W. Ellis, sheriff of Lunenburg county, and as such administrator de bonis non with the will annexed of E. Blackwell, deceased, from decree of circuit court of said county, rendered 6th October, 1881, in the chancery cause styled Bragg, Trustee, and others v. Blackwell’s Adm’r and others. In 1839, E. Blackwell qualified as guardian of Upton E. Hardy. Besides personalty the ward was entitled, as heir of his father, Miles Hardy, deceased, and as heir of a deceased brother and sister to part of a tract of land, which was sold for a sum whereof $3,751.84 was the ward’s share, and for…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
This case, so far as the facts are necessary to be stated, is as follows: In may, 1877, William J. Bragg and others instituted their suit in the circuit court of Dinwiddie county, setting up a claim to the estate of Upton E. Hardy, deceased, against the appellants, on account of the transactions of Robert Blackwell, deceased, as guardian of the said Upton E. Hardy, he having qualified as such in 1839, andas administrator of said Upton E. Hardy, he having qualified as such in 1850; alleging that the said Robert Blackwell had never properly accounted for the said estate, either as guardian or…
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