Major's Ex'or v. Major's Adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Culpeper county, brought in March, 1875, by the administrator of Edmund P. Major, deceased, and of Bettie Major, deceased, to recover from John C. Major, the executor of Samuel Major, deceased, the share of the estate of Samuel Major to which the plaintiff claimed that his intestates were entitled. The whole case turned upon the construction of the will of Samuel Major, deceased.
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This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Culpeper county, brought in March, 1875, by the administrator of Edmund P. Major, deceased, and of Bettie Major, deceased, to recover from John C. Major, the executor of Samuel Major, deceased, the share of the estate of Samuel Major to which the plaintiff claimed that his intestates were entitled. The whole case turned upon the construction of the will of Samuel Major, deceased. The will was written by himself, and contains but a single clause, which is as follows: First, I direct that all my debts be paid as soon after my decease as…
1Opinion of the Court
CHRISTIAN, J.,
delivered the. opinion of the court.
The only question we have to determine in this case is, whether the legacy bequeathed by the will,of the testator, Samuel Major, to the children of his brother William Major, vested in them at the death of the testator, r at the time they arrived at the age of twenty-one years. This question must be solved by the true construction to be given to the following clauses of the testator’s will. After providing first for the payment of his debts, he makes the following disposition of the balance of his estate in these words: “Also I direct that all…
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