Lovett v. Thomas' Adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decrees of circuit court of Loudoun county, rendered October 25, 1882, and May 1, 1883, respectively, in the chancery cause of Thomas J. Lovett, complainant, against Mahlon Thomas, administrator c. t. a. of Jefferson C. Thomas, deceased, and others, defendants. The object of this suit was to construe the will of the testator, and to settle the accounts of his executor and distribute the funds.
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Appeal from decrees of circuit court of Loudoun county, rendered October 25, 1882, and May 1, 1883, respectively, in the chancery cause of Thomas J. Lovett, complainant, against Mahlon Thomas, administrator c. t. a. of Jefferson C. Thomas, deceased, and others, defendants. The object of this suit was to construe the will of the testator, and to settle the accounts of his executor and distribute the funds. The decrees of the circuit court were adverse to the complainant, who obtained therefrom an appeal to this court.
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
The testator died 1868, leaving no wife, and no child or descendant, except one daughter, Mrs. Caroline Lovett, and her three children—Thomas J. Lovett, the appellant, Mary Lovett, and Caroline Lovett, aged respectively ten, five, and two years. These grandchildren were, by the testator’s will, made the special objects of his bounty. The testator, at his death, was the owner of certain personal property, and of two farms, one containing some ninety-eight or one hundred acres, called “Mulberry Grove,” the other of about one hundred and seventeen acres, called “ Osburn.” By the following will…
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