Watkins v. Young

This is an appeal from a decree of the corporation court of Alexandria. The object of the suit was to compel the appellee, Mrs. Virginia Young, to bring into hotchpot an alleged advancement made to her by her father, John T. Evans, in his lifetime, of the sum of about $14¿000.

' John T. Evans died intestate in the year 1875, seized *85and possessed of real estate of considerable value, and of a large personal estate amounting to at least $100,000. He left surviving Mm three children, Mary C., who intermarried with D. S. Watkins, and Maria, who intermarried with John Ellis, and the appellee here,…