Case ID: va_14/html/0932-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the Chancellor.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Archer v. Colly and Wife.
    September Term, 1808.
    Husband and Wife — Suit to Recover Demand of Wife-Abatement. — A suit brought by husband and wife, to recover a demand in right of the wife, abates by her death.
    The bill in this case was brought to recover the plaintiff’s demand against the defendants, on account of *the wife. Pending the suit she died; and the question submitted to the Court, was,, whether the suit abated as to the husband-
    
      
      Husband and Wife. — See monographic note on “Husband and Wife” appended to Cleland v. Watson, 10 Gratt. 159.
    
   By the Chancellor.

L,et the suit abate, for such is the law.