Deering & Co. v. Kerfoot's Ex'or
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from, decree of circuit court of Clarke'county, rendered February 14th, 1890, in a suit wherein W. S. Kerfoot’s executor was complainant and Mamie A. Kerfoot and others were defendants. The decree being favorable to the complainant, the defendants appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtFauntleroy, J.
This suit was instituted to the January rules, 1888, by Thomas D. Gold, executor of W. S. Kerfoot, deceased, against Mamie A. Kerfoot, widow of W. S. Kerfoot, deceased, and Joseph R. Hardesty, who had been a partner of W. S. Kerfoot in the agricultural machinery business ; and its object was to obtain from the court a construction of the will of W. *492S. Kerfoot, deceased; and, with no one before the court except the testator’s widow and his late partner, Joseph R. Hardesty, the coui-t proceeded to construe the will, and to pass upon the rights of creditors who were not before it, by its decree…
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