Smith v. Ottley

This is a controversy between Smith and Murden, executors named in the alleged will of Captain Frederick M. Holstead and thirty-two persons claiming to be the heirs at law and distributees of the deceased.

Captain Holstead, a citizen of Norfolk county, Virginia, was in his youth an officer in the Confederate army. He was a life-long resident of the community in which he died, and made his home from infancy on the ancestral estate known as “Cedar Grove.” On the-15th day of April, 1918, he executed the paper involved in this litigation, and departed this life on October 8, 1924, at the age of…