Palmer v. Garland's Committee

Citations

• 81 Va. 444
• 1886 Va. LEXIS 111

Syllabus

<p>Lunatics—Lands—Judicial sale—Case at bar.—H., committee of G-., a female lunatic, institutes a suit under Code 1873, ch. 124, to sell her contingent estate in lands, and conducts it in the proper manner, and against ihe proper parties, and adduces the proper evidence, in every respect in accordance with the requirements of the statute, and in his bill he presents the bids of certain parties who already owned other contingent interests in the same lands. The court, deeming that the interests of the lunatic will be promoted and the rights of no one will be violated by the sale of her said contingent estate, decrees that the proposed sales be confirmed at the said bids, and the said estate of the lunatic therein be conveyed to the said bidders.</p> <p>Held :</p> <p>The sale is lawful.</p>