Legal Opinion
City of Norfolk v. Stephenson
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided June 10, 1946No. Record No. 3050PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHudgins, J.
The city of Norfolk obtained this appeal from a decree declaring that the taxes reported delinquent from January 1, 1932, to date, on five lots lying in the city of Norfolk, constituted a cloud on complainant’s title.
The conceded facts are that Thomas H. Willcox, Sr., by deed duly recorded in 1927, conveyed a one-half undivided interest in the lots to Percy S. Stephenson, A. Brooke Taylor, A. Gordon Stephenson and H. B. Goodridge. By the will of Thomas H. Willcox, Sr., duly probated in 1926, the other one-half interest was devised to Mary W. Carter, Thomas H. Willcox, Jr., Claiborne Willcox,…
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