Nicholson v. Shockey
Supreme Court of Virginia
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtEggleston, J.
Mrs. Fannie C. Shockey, a resident of Fairfax county, died testate on May 14, 1947, at the age of seventy-nine years. She left surviving her husband, Joseph L. Shockey, who was eighty-three or eighty-four years old, two sons, Harry A. Shockey, a member of the local bar, and Joseph A. W. Shockey, and three *273married daughters, Mrs. Ruth Shockey Nicholson, Mrs. Margaret Shockey Hand, and Mrs. Catherine Shockey Stone.
Under the terms of her will Mrs. Shockey devised “a one-half life interest” in her home place to her husband in lieu of curtesy. All the rest of her property, “real, personal and…
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