Legal Opinion

Eldred v. Eldred

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided November 16, 1899PublishedCited by 23 opinions

Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Oourt of Eauquier county, pronounced January 31, 1898, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellee was the complainant, and the appellants and others were the defendants.

1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.

E. A. Eldred, an infant, by his next friend, instituted a suit in the Circuit Oourt of" Eauquier county, in which he alleged that E. B. Eldred died seised and possessed of an undivided moiety of certain real estate in the county of Eauquier, the other moiety thereof being pwned by John A. Eldred; that E. B. Eldred died intestate, leaving surviving him a widow, Zellah K. Eldred, and the complainant, his only child and heir at law; that the brothers and sisters of E. B. Eldred denied that complainant and the said widow were entitled to any share of the estate of E. B. Eldred, and the prayer of…

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3Cited by23 opinions

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