Legal Opinion

Young v. Young

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided February 16, 1893PublishedCited by 28 opinions

Appeal from decree of corporation court of city of Norfolk, rendered in the cause wherein the appellants, Robert W. Young, Jr., and others, were complainants, and N. P. Young and others were defendants. The decree being adverse to the complainants, they appealed. Opinion states the ease.

1Opinion of the CourtHinton, J.

By his will, which was probated in the year 1836, one Tapley Webb, of the city of Portsmouth, devised the two lots of land, with the buildings thereon, in the proceedings mentioned, to his daughter, Ann Porter Young, for life, with *676remainders in fee to such of her issue as might be living at her death.

On the 5th day of November, 1884, Mrs. Young died, leaving the following issue : Robert W. Young, Jr., Tapley W. Young, Anna Virginia d’Abbadie, and Nathaniel F. Young; and upon her death the remainders, which had been theretofore contingent, became vested. In June, 1886, this suit was…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Gregory v. PeoplesSupreme Court of Virginia · 1885
  2. Watson v. . DoddSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1873
  3. Raines v. WalkerSupreme Court of Virginia · 1883
  4. Burtners v. KeranSupreme Court of Virginia · 1873

3Cited by28 opinions

  1. Taylor v. TaylorSupreme Court of Iowa · 1902
  2. Copenhaver v. PendletonSupreme Court of Virginia · 1930
  3. Edmiston v. WilsonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1961
  4. McDonald v. Bayard Savings BankSupreme Court of Iowa · 1904
  5. Nichols v. GuthrieTennessee Supreme Court · 1902

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