Supreme Court of Virginia February 20, 1896 (Hughes' Ex'r v. Wilson)

Caedwell, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This appeal is from a decree of the circuit court of Glou*316cester county, pronounced in a chancery proceeding instituted for the settlement of the estates of George Hughes and Mary E. Hughes, his wife, both deceased. The controversy here arises out of an assignment by Mrs.