Curtis v. Hiden

Keith, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellant, Curtis, filed his bill in the Circuit Court of Warwick county, in which he shows that Mrs. Virginia R. Chewning, in her life time, was seized in fee of certain tracts of land, containing by estimate 215 acres; that she had been twice married, and by her second husband, who survived her, she had one child, which is still living; that by her will she devised the land to the children of her first marriage, subject to the life estate by curtesy of. her surviving husband, H. M. Chewning; that the complainant, Curtis, by deed dated June 2,…