Perkins v. Jones
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Albemarle county rendered May 27th, 1887, in the case of John 1ST. Perkins, propounder of the will of Jesse ~W. Jones, who died May 31st, 1886, against Maria 0. Ayers, Anne M. Furrow, Emma ~W. Edwards, and Jesse P. Jones, contestants. This proceeding began in the county court of said county, where the decision was adverse to the propounder of the will.
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Error to judgment of circuit court of Albemarle county rendered May 27th, 1887, in the case of John 1ST. Perkins, propounder of the will of Jesse ~W. Jones, who died May 31st, 1886, against Maria 0. Ayers, Anne M. Furrow, Emma ~W. Edwards, and Jesse P. Jones, contestants. This proceeding began in the county court of said county, where the decision was adverse to the propounder of the will. On appeal the circuit court also rejected the will, and the propounder obtained a writ of error and supersedeas from one of the judges of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
*359This case is a contest concerning the will of Jesse W. Jones, of Albemarle county, who died on the thirty-first day of May, 1886. In September, 1886, on the sixteenth day of that month, the will was found upon the premises of the testator, among a large quantity of papers, in an outhouse, where the papers had been piled preparatory to a change of occupancy of the premises. These papers were at first in an old trunk, into which such a quantity of the said papers had been put, and the top so pushed down, as to burst the top otf; and the papers being subsequently turned out of the trunk, as is…
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