Chap. 333.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 241 of the acts of assembly
of 1918, entitled an act relating to the filing of answers in suits for the sale
of infant’s interests in real estate so as to include insane persons within
the provisions of said act. [H B 170]

Approved March 24, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chapter
two hundred and forty-one of the acts of assembly of nineteen hundred
and eighteen, entitled an act relating to the filing of answers in suits for
the sale of infant’s interest in real estate, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Section 5337-a. Whenever a suit has heretofore been instituted for
the sale of any interest in real estate owned by an infant under four-
teen years of age, or of an insane person, and it appears that a guardian
ad litem has been duly appointed to protect said infant’s or insane
person’s interest and that such guardian has filed an answer for said
infant or insane person, or has answered in his own proper person, no
deed acquired by a bona fide purchaser in such proceedings shall be
invalid because such guardian failed to file both of such answers; pro-
vided, it further appears that such infant’s or insane person’s rights
have been fully protected by the said guardian ad litem in other partic-
ulars of such suit, and that said proceedings have been fairly and
honestly conducted without suspicion of any attempt to injure or de-
fraud such infant or insane person.

RT