Spruill v. Shirley

W. W. Spruill, sixty-eight years old, had been a farmer in Princess Anne county, Virginia, for twenty years. Although he was unable, to read and writé,. he had operated a merchandise store and had had many business dealings. In 1940, he married for the third time, and moved to Norfolk city. He then decided to sell the ninety-acre farm on which he had been living in Princess Anne county. His first wife had been dead for some years and he had been divorced from his second wife. He had six children by his deceased wife, *344Ellora Spruill, all of whom were adults, married, and lived apart from him.

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