Haxall's ex'ors v. Shippen
Supreme Court of Virginia
Thomas Shore died in the year 1800, and by his will devised the tenement and plantation on which he lived, called Violet Banlc farm, in Chesterfield, to his wife Jane Shore for life, remainder to his three daughters Jane, Elizabeth and Louisa, or such of them as should be liv- - "ihg at his wife’s death.
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Thomas Shore died in the year 1800, and by his will devised the tenement and plantation on which he lived, called Violet Banlc farm, in Chesterfield, to his wife Jane Shore for life, remainder to his three daughters Jane, Elizabeth and Louisa, or such of them as should be liv- - "ihg at his wife’s death. On the premises so devised, there had been erected by the testator in his lifetime, a valuable wooden dwelling house, on which he had effected a policy of insurance with the Mutual Asmranee Society, as early as the year 1797, by a covenant insuring the house to the covenantee, his heirs and…
1Opinion of the Court
Tucker, P.
Upon mature consideration of this case, and of the very able argument on both sides, I regret to be compelled to give my judgment in favour of the appellees: I regret it because it is certainly a case of some hardship on the appellants, and those for whom their testator was the surety, since the appellees, by this decision, will get both the newly erected building and the whole of the insurance money which was paid for that which was consumed.
At the very first step in this investigation, we are met by the decree of June 1S14. That decree I consider as conclusive of the rights of the…
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