Carroll M. Williamson, Jr. v. Evelyn Byrd Williamson

Carroll Mac Williamson sued his half sister, Evelyn Byrd Williamson, in the district court to set aside a family agreement that determined the boundary line between lands inherited under the will of their father. In a carefully prepared opinion, 407 F.Supp. 370 (E.D.Va.1976), the district judge held that the boundary-line agreement was valid as a family settlement of a dispute over the interpretation of the will and that the agreement, under Virginia law applicable to this diversity jurisdiction case, effectively conveyed any interest which Carrol] Mac Williamson may have had to the tract in…