Gaymon v. Gaymon

By Judge Arthur B. Vieregg

In November 1997, William V. Gaymon, executor of the estate of his father, William E. Gaymon, filed a bill of complaint ostensibly seeking the guidance of this court in the administration of his father’s estate, Chancery Case No. 152472 (“The Aid and Direction Suit”). Disappointed with certain trial court’s decisions, Gaymon prosecuted an appeal in the Supreme Court of Virginia. The Court granted certain of the relief he sought but denied the rest. *265Thereafter, Violeta Gaymon, the widow of William E. Gaymon, who had been named a defendant in the Aid and Direction…