Penn v. Guggenheimer
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from tlie decrees of the circuit court of Botetourt county, rendered on the 27th October, 1876, and on the 25th of October, 1879, in the chancery cause therein pending, wherein Max Guggenheimer, Senior, and others were plaintiffs, and William J. Penn, in his own right and as administrator of Stuart B. Penn, deceased, Ann S. Penn, George Skillen Penn, L. U. Mayo and Frances L. Mayo, were defendants.
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Appeal from tlie decrees of the circuit court of Botetourt county, rendered on the 27th October, 1876, and on the 25th of October, 1879, in the chancery cause therein pending, wherein Max Guggenheimer, Senior, and others were plaintiffs, and William J. Penn, in his own right and as administrator of Stuart B. Penn, deceased, Ann S. Penn, George Skillen Penn, L. U. Mayo and Frances L. Mayo, were defendants. The object of this suit was to ascertain the interest of William J. Penn in the estate whereof Stuart B. Penn died seized and possessed, and to subject that interest to satisfy the liens of…
1Opinion of the CourtStaples, J.
The main question in this case turns upon the construction to be given to the will of Charles B. Penn, which was admitted to probate at the September term of the county court of Botetourt, in the year 1849. The testator, at the time of his death, was possessed of a valuable real and personal estate, which he devised and bequeathed to his wife, Mrs. Ann Penn, and to his four children. To his two sons, George S. Penn and William Penn, he gave severally a tract of land. To Mrs. Mayo, his married daughter, he gave certain real estate and a sum of ten thousand dollars in bank stock. To his wife,…
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