Whittle v. Whittle's Executors

This appeal brings under review the decree of the Court of Law and Chancery for the city of Norfolk, construing the clause of the will of Mrs. Cilberta M. Whittle, late of that city, disposing of the residuum of her estate, consisting entirely of personal property.

The will is wholly in the handwriting of the testatrix, an old lady of intelligence and generously disposed alike to the next of kin of her husband, who had preceded her to the grave, and her own kin, especially remembering in the disposition of her bounty certain of them named who had been particularly kind and considerate of her.

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