Biedler v. Biedler
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Page county, in a cause wherein Biedler and others were complainants, and Henry W. Biedler and Morgan L. Biedler were defendants. The object was to construe the will of Morgan Biedler, deceased. The decision of the court below being adverse to the pretentions of the complainants, they appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtHinton, J.
*301This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Page county. The parties to the controversy are the devisees and legatees of one Morgan Biedler, deceased. The question presented for decision is, to use the language of the appellants* counsel, “whether the third item of the will, is, under the law, an advancement to be brought into hotchpot under the fourth item of the will.”
By the first clause of said will, the testator directs that a sale of all his personal property shall be made, and that his debts and funeral expenses shall be paid out of the proceeds thereof. The second, third…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Puryear v. CabellSupreme Court of Virginia · 1874
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