Noel's Adm'r v. Noel's Adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from .three decrees of circuit court of Fluvanna county, rendered September 13, 1884, November 24,1886, and November 25, 1887, respectively, in the chancery cause wherein L. J. Walton, sheriff-administrator c. t. a. of Richard Noel, deceased, was fcomplainant, and ~W. Ii. Noel, R. A. Noel, James P. Noel, and others, were defendants. The object of the suit was to construe the will and settle and distribute the estate of the testator, Richard Noel, deceased.
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Appeal from .three decrees of circuit court of Fluvanna county, rendered September 13, 1884, November 24,1886, and November 25, 1887, respectively, in the chancery cause wherein L. J. Walton, sheriff-administrator c. t. a. of Richard Noel, deceased, was fcomplainant, and ~W. Ii. Noel, R. A. Noel, James P. Noel, and others, were defendants. The object of the suit was to construe the will and settle and distribute the estate of the testator, Richard Noel, deceased. The decree was unfavorable to James P. Noel, who filed and withdrew, with leave of the court, a petition for a rehearing thereof.…
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal from sundry decrees rendered by the circuit ■court of Fluvanna county in a suit which was brought to obtain a construction of the wall of Richard Noel, deceased, and Jo have the proper accounts taken and the estate administered under the supervision of the court.
The will is dated September 16, 1853, and after devising certain property to his wife for her life, the testator directs that all the rest and residue of his estate be equally divided among his ■children, of whom, at the date of the will, there were six. The will also…
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