Snider v. Snider
West Virginia Supreme Court
Abraham Snider died seized of certain real estate in Berkeley county. He disposed of his estate by will, providing that it should be sold by his executor, and his widow should have the interest arising from one-third of the proceeds of such sale for life; to seven legatees, his sons and daughters by a former wife, he gave sums amounting in the aggregate to 2,000 dollars; after the death of the widow the sum devised to her was to be equally divided among all his children.
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Abraham Snider died seized of certain real estate in Berkeley county. He disposed of his estate by will, providing that it should be sold by his executor, and his widow should have the interest arising from one-third of the proceeds of such sale for life; to seven legatees, his sons and daughters by a former wife, he gave sums amounting in the aggregate to 2,000 dollars; after the death of the widow the sum devised to her was to be equally divided among all his children. The widow renounced the provisions of the will and claimed dower, and a decree of the circuit court of Berkeley gave her…
1Opinion of the Court
Brown, President
delivered the opinion of the court.
Thi3 was a pending appeal in the supreme court-, of appeals of Virginia, at Richmond, on the 17th day of April, 1861. Afterwards, pending the war, viz: on the 19th of November, 1861, a so-called decree was made in the case by certain learned gentlemen, who had been on the said 17th of April, 1861, and prior thereto, judges of the said court. This court will take judicial notice that the said gentlemen, who assumed to be a court, acted under the authority of those citizens of Virginia then in insurrection and open war against the government of…
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- Burkhartv. JenningsWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1867
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