Evans v. Stewart
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of city of Alexandria, rendered 28th September, 1883, upon the petition of Mrs. Mary Jane Evans, by, &c., filed in the cause pending in said court between the distributees and the administrator of John T. Evans, senior, deceased, who died intestate in 1874, leaving three daughters (the parties to the suit), and having had one son, who had been absent more than seven years, and was presumably dead.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of city of Alexandria, rendered 28th September, 1883, upon the petition of Mrs. Mary Jane Evans, by, &c., filed in the cause pending in said court between the distributees and the administrator of John T. Evans, senior, deceased, who died intestate in 1874, leaving three daughters (the parties to the suit), and having had one son, who had been absent more than seven years, and was presumably dead. The style of the cause was Mrs. V. Stewart against Isaac C. O’Neal, administrator, and D. S. Watkins and wife, and Joshua Ellis and wife, distributees of John T.…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
On the 8th day of September, 1875, John T. Evans, senior, of Alexandria, departed this life intestate, seized of a large estate, real and personal, the latter amounting to about $100,000. He left no widow, but did leave three daughters surviving him—namely: Virginia Stewart, Mary O. Watkins, *726and Ann Maria Ellis, all of whom resided in the State of Virginia at the time of their father’s death. There was a fourth child—a son—John T. Evans, junior, who had grown to manhood, married, but had no children, abandoned his wife and home, and left Virginia a number of years prior to his father’s death.
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