Case Name: Coleman's Case
Court: Superior Court of Chancery of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1810-02
Citations: 4 Hen. & M. 506
Docket Number: 
Parties: Coleman’s Case.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Reports
Volume: 14
Pages: 965–965

Head Matter:
Coleman’s Case.
February Term, 1810.
Husband and Wiie — Right oi Husband When Wife Isa Lunatic. — A wife, being a lunatic, and put under the care of a committee by the County Court, will be restored to her husband, by a decree of this Court, upon his giving bond and security according to law.
See monographic note on “Sheriffs and Constables” appended to Goode v. Galt, Gilm. 152.
The principal case cited in Burdett v. Cain, 8 W. Va. 287.
See monographic note on “Husband and Wife” appended to Olelandv. Watson, 10 Gratt. 159.

Opinion:
Ordered, on the petition of William Coleman, whose wife, a lunatic, was put under the care of a committee, by the County Court of Spotsylvania, that she be restored to him, upon his entering into bond and security accordingly to law for that purpose.