1 Leigh 449 | Va. | 1829
The general question, whether a widow is entitled to all the rents, issues and profits of the mansion house and plantation thereto belonging, from the death of her husband, until dower shall be assigned to her, is a very important one, and with us, so far as I can find, new. I should, therefore, if it were necessary to decide it in this cause, regret that we have but a bare court. But I do not think such necessity exists. The parties themselves have settled the matter; and upon principles which, under the peculiar circumstances of this case, seem so just, that I feel no disposition to disturb them.
The heir, it will be remembered, was only a month old when her father died. Her mother was her natural guar
The other judges concurred.