Carson v. Simmons

June Simmons, appellee, filed her bill of complaint on February 19, 1954, in which she prayed, inter alia, that premises 218 North Street, Portsmouth, Virginia, be partitioned in one of the methods prescribed by law. Appellants filed timely answers thereto in which they asserted that the prayer of the complainant’s bill should be denied and requested the court to construe the will of her father, Joseph P. Gillerlain, to ascertain whether or not the property in question is subject to the provision that it could not be sold until the youngest child of his daughters, Catherine Carson and June…