Cowper v. Sargeant

This is a petition for a writ of prohibition. The sole question presented is: Has the Corporation Court of the city of Norfolk jurisdiction to entertain a bill filed in that court to contest the validity of the purported will of Laura Virginia Dewell?

The petition sets forth that Laura Virginia Dewell, late of the city of Norfolk, departed this life on the 25th day of July, 1929, leaving a last will and testament, which was duly probated in the corporation court; that petitioner was named as residuary devisee and legatee in the will; that on the third Monday in July, 1931, James P. Cowper…