Samuel v. Hunter's
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Norfolk upon an issue of devisavit vel non. Judgment for executrix, the proponent of the will. The contestants assign error.
1Opinion of the CourtKelly, J.
A .writing purporting to be the will of Newtie E. Hunter, an elderly maiden lady, who resided in Norfolk and died there in 1914, was admitted to probate by the clerk of the circuit court of .that city. Rosa S. Samuel and others, claiming to be the heirs at law of the alleged testatrix, appealed to the circuit court from the clerk’s order of probate. Upon an issue devisavit vel non made up and tried in that court, there was a verdict and judgment in favor of the proponent, Mrs. Lydia A. Howe, the executrix and chief beneficiary under the will. Thereupon the contestants brought the case here…
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