Morrison's Ex'or v. Householder's Adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Loudoun county, rendered November 3d, 1881, in the cause of E. V. White, late sheriff of said county, and as such administrator of Gr. W. Householder, deceased, and John L. Jordan and Julia, his wife, against Joseph P. Grubb, executor of Edward Morrison, deceased, and N. B. Peacock, administrator of Thomas White, deceased.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Loudoun county, rendered November 3d, 1881, in the cause of E. V. White, late sheriff of said county, and as such administrator of Gr. W. Householder, deceased, and John L. Jordan and Julia, his wife, against Joseph P. Grubb, executor of Edward Morrison, deceased, and N. B. Peacock, administrator of Thomas White, deceased. H. Householder qualified in October, 1848, as guardian of G. W. and Julia Householder, and gave bond with said Morrison and White as sureties. In October, 1852, his powers were revoked and John W. Hamilton succeeded him H. Householder…
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The original bill was filed and process served on the 18th September, 1871, and after various proceedings had been had in the cause, a demurrer to the bill was sustained by the decree of the 22d October, 1877, with leave, however, to file an amended bill within sixty days after the rising of the court. The grounds upon which it would seem the demurrer was sustained, were the misjoinder, as a plaintiff, of Drueilla Householder, a distributee of the deceased male ward, and the failure to make the personal representative of Hamilton Householder, the…
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