Atkinson v. McCormick
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal of William M. Atkinson, trustee, from decree of Circuit court of Frederick county, rendered June, 1882, in chancery suit wherein William H. Brown, J. E. Morrison and A. E. Brown, partners doing business in the name of William H. Brown & Bros., were plaintiffs, and Marshall McCormick, trustee, George W. Bowly and Anna M. Bowly, his wife, the said William M. Atkinson, trustee, and others were defendants.
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Appeal of William M. Atkinson, trustee, from decree of Circuit court of Frederick county, rendered June, 1882, in chancery suit wherein William H. Brown, J. E. Morrison and A. E. Brown, partners doing business in the name of William H. Brown & Bros., were plaintiffs, and Marshall McCormick, trustee, George W. Bowly and Anna M. Bowly, his wife, the said William M. Atkinson, trustee, and others were defendants. In 1878, Charles L. Wood devised estates to Marshall McCormick, trustee, in trust for the separate use of his daughter, Anna Maria, the wife of George W. Bowly, and her issue, with a…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
Charles L. Wood by his last will, which was admitted to probate in the circuit court of Frederick county, March 5, 1878, first directs his executor to pay all his debts, and directs him to make sale of all his personal property, and all his interest in the partnership business of Wood & Smith, including all interest held by him, jointly or otherwise, with said Smith, in any and all real estate,' to raise a fund for that purpose, and any surplus arising therefrom, over and above the payment of his debts, he afterwards disposes of in a subsequent clause of his will. The will then proceeds as…
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