Nicholas v. Nicholas
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the 'Circuit Court of Rockingham county, pronounced April 23, 1900, in a suit in chancery where one of the appellants, Georg© -M. Nicholas, was the complainant, and the other appellant and the appellees were the defendants. The bill in this cause was filed by one of the appellants, George Nicholas, a son of Jacob B. Nicholas, deceased.
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Appeal from a decree of the 'Circuit Court of Rockingham county, pronounced April 23, 1900, in a suit in chancery where one of the appellants, Georg© -M. Nicholas, was the complainant, and the other appellant and the appellees were the defendants. The bill in this cause was filed by one of the appellants, George Nicholas, a son of Jacob B. Nicholas, deceased. The bill alleges that the said Jacob B. Nicholas died “intestate, seised and possessed 'of a large amount of real estate, and a considerable amount of personalty;” that the sole heirs and distributees of the decedent were his five sons;…
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
J. R. Nicholas was seised during his lifetime of several parcels of real estate in. the county of Rockingham. He gave one of these tracts, valued -at $7,000, to his son, Charles H. Nicholas. The donee was put in possession about the year 1880, and thereafter placed valuable improvements upon it, and exea’cised exclusive 'ownership over it until his father’s death.
In 1872 the father placed J. J. Nicholas, another son, in possession as tenant of what is known as the “Palmer tract,” consisting of 125 acres. In 1887 his father proposed to him that he…
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