Hanriot v. Sherwood
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Norfolk county, rendered 2d April, 1881, in the chancery cause wherein John Hanriot and others, suing as next of kin of Francis Hanriot, deceased, against 0. S. Sherwood, Peter Dufrane and others, claiming to be the legatees of the deceased. The object of the suit was to impeach a paper writing propounded by the defendants as the will of the decedent.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Norfolk county, rendered 2d April, 1881, in the chancery cause wherein John Hanriot and others, suing as next of kin of Francis Hanriot, deceased, against 0. S. Sherwood, Peter Dufrane and others, claiming to be the legatees of the deceased. The object of the suit was to impeach a paper writing propounded by the defendants as the will of the decedent. The jury imp'aneled to try the issue of devisavit vel non, rendered their verdict in the affirmative. The court ordered the said paper writing to be recorded as the true last will of the decedent.…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The facts necessary to be stated are as follows: Francis Hanriot, an eccentric and miserly Frenchman, residing in the county of Norfolk, died at a boarding-house in the city of •Portsmouth on the 23d day of December, 1880, to which he had been removed by the appellee, Sherwood, on the 20 th of the same month. Before his removal he had lived alone, having but little intercourse with his fellow-man, with few associates, if, indeed, he could be said to have any associate, except a fellow-countryman, a pauper in the county poorhouse, which was near by, named Peter Dufrane, who was more or less…
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