Woolfolk v. Graves
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Spotsylvania county. Decree for the complainants. Defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
In July, 1906, E. M. Graves and Daisy E. Griggs, her daughter, filed their bill in this cause against Lucian Comfort and Samuel Woolfolk, in which they allege that B. F. Graves, the husband of E. M. Graves, and father of Daisy E. Griggs, departed this life about the year 1885, and that by his last will and testament, duly probated in Spotsylvania county court, he devised the “Home Place,” containing about 375 acres of land, to his said wife for life, with remainder to said Daisy E. Graves and W. W. Graves, and that the latter had conveyed his one-half interest in remainder in said land to his…
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