Chap. 241.—An ACT relating to the filing of answers in suits for the sale
of infants’ interest in real estate. ([S B 59]

Approved March 15, 1918.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That when-
ever a suit has heretofore been instituted for the sale of any in-
terest in rea] estate owned by an infant under fourteen years of age,
and it appears that a guardian ad litem has been duly appointed
to protect said infant’s interest, and that such guardian has filed
an answer for said infant, or has answered in his own proper
person, no deed acquired by a bona fide purchaser in such pro-
ceedings shall be invalid because such guardian failed to file both
of such answers; provided, it further appears that said infant’s
rights have been fully protected by said guardian in other par-
ticulars of such suit, and that said proceedings have been fairly and
honestly conducted without suspicion of any attempt to defraud
or injure said infant.