Hinton v. Bland's Adm'r

Citations

• 81 Va. 588
• 1886 Va. LEXIS 126

Syllabus

<p>1. Chancery Practice—Lunatics—Committees—Guardians ad litem. It is only where there is no committee, or where there is a conflict of interest between the committee and the lunatic, that it becomes necessary to appoint a guardian ad litem for the insane defendant. Code 1873, ch. 167. sec. 17.</p> <p>2. Idem—Partitions—Accounts.—Court of equity hath authority to pass upon all questions necessary to justice between the parties, in suits for partition, such as accounts of liens and priorities on the lands to be partitioned.</p> <p>3. Idem;—Parties—Objections.—Where defect of parties is apparent on the record, objections may be made in the appellate court for first time. L. I. Co. v. Tayloe, 79 Va. 671.</p> <p>4. Idem—Parties—Administrator d. b. n.—Administrator de bonis non is entitled to all the personal estate of intestate which has not been converted by the former administrator. And where in a suit there is money ordered to be paid to the intestate’s estate, the administrator de bonis non must be a party.</p>