McVeigh's Adm'r v. Chamberlain
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the city of Alexandria, pronounced April 13, 1893, in the chancery suit of McVeigh"1 s Ex’or v. McVeigh and others, wherein the appellee filed his petition asserting a debt against the estate of the complainant’s testator.
1Opinion of the CourtRiely, J.
Lnther Chamberlain, who died in 1828, was the owner of a two-thirds interest in certain wharf property in the city of Alexandria. Under his will, his son, James L. Chamberlain, was entitled to the said property in the event that he survived his mother, to whom the testator gave all of his estate for her natural life, and also to her absolutely if no one of his children survived her.
Win. M. MoVeigh, with whom the widow of Luther Cham-' berlain intermarried, having become the owner of the other one-third interest in the wharf property, bought, in 1852, of James L. Chamberlain, his contingent…
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