Case Name: Archer v. Colly and Wife
Court: Superior Court of Chancery of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1808-09
Citations: 4 Hen. & M. 410
Docket Number: 
Parties: Archer v. Colly and Wife.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Reports
Volume: 14
Pages: 932–932

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
By the Chancellor.
L,et the suit abate, for such is the law.