Hawthorne v. Beckwith
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of Brunswick county, rendered October 19th, 1891, in the cause wherein W. H. Hawthorne and others (the children of Henry C. Hawthorne, deceased,) were complainants, and Josiah Beckwith and others were defendants. The decree being adverse to complainants, they appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is the sequel to Beckwith v. Avery, 31 Gratt. 533. The ease may be shortly stated as follows:
By his will, which was duly admitted to probate in 1818, Asa Avery devised and bequeathed, after the payment of debts, the whole of his estate, real and personal, to Haney E. and Mary J. Hawthorne for their lives, with a limitation over, in the event of their dying without children, to their brothers’ .and sisters’ children. In 1819 the administrator c. t. a. tiled his bill in the court below for a construction of the will and a settlement of the…
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