Turpin v. Chesterfield C. &. I. M. Co.

Citations

• 82 Va. 74
• 1886 Va. LEXIS 11

Syllabus

<p>Personal Representatives—Compromises—Liability—Case at bar. An administrator, acting in good faith, in 1863, compromised at 50 cents in the dollar in the currency of the country, an unestablished, unadmitted claim, not a lien, dated December, 1840, of his intestate’s estate; which, though it had been asserted for more than twenty years and been reported by a commissioner that length of time before, yet had met with some adverse decision in the circuit court, and was affected by all the uncertainties of flagrant war. Suit by the distributees charging administrator and the debtor with collusive devastavit nearly twenty years later, was dismissed by the circuit court. On appeal—</p> <p>Held :</p> <p>The compromise was valid, and no devastavit was committed, and the suit was properly dismissed.</p>