Wilkinson v. Merrill
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of city of Alexandria, rendered March 29th, 1889, in a chancery suit wherein Margaret Merrill and John M. Truslow were complainants, and James H. Wilkinson was defendant. Decree being adverse to defendant, he appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The appellant was a householder in the city of Alexandria, who, being indebted, in May, 1883, in a suit in a court of competent jurisdiction, had had set apart to him as a homestead the house and lot situated in the said city, where he resided, and which said house and lot is in controversy here.
At this time the family of the said householder consisted of *514himself and his little grandson, a boy of tender years, being nine or ten years of age, and a son who was of age and worked out on his own account, but received occasional aid, as need required, from his said father.
In 1884 the appellee,…
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