Case Name: Major ag't Dudley
Court: General Court of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1737-10
Citations: 2 Va. Col. Dec. 63
Docket Number: 
Parties: Major ag’t Dudley
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Colonial Decisions
Volume: 2
Pages: B66–B67

Head Matter:
OCTOBER COURT MDCCXXXVII.
Major ag’t Dudley
in Canc.
s. C. Jeff. 51.

Opinion:
A Bill was brought against the Deft, who had married an Executrix that was dead for an Account of the Testator's Estate come to his hands. The Deft, about, twenty years before had exhibited in the County Court on Account of Debts and Disbursments paid out of the Testator's Estate to which he made Oath And the same was received and recorded without any Examination into the Truth of those Payments As the children of the Testator came of Age they severally petitioned the County Court and some of them brought Suit to have their Share of the Father's Estate. Upon which Petitions and Suits several Orders were made for Persons to settle on Account of the Testator's Estate And in all those Settlements the Account first exhibited by the Deft, was allowed [64] as a good Discharge for so much In the present Case it was referred to Persons to settle an account of the Estate who having some Doubt about allowing this Account they prayed the Opinion and Direction of the Court
The Court was unanimously of Opinion for allowing the Account in Regard to the Distance of Time tho' the Deft, had not one Voucher to produce And as to the Length of Time The Transaction was of little more than twenty Years standing and the suit had been depending ten Years.