Anderson's Administrator v. Smith
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Corporation Court of the city of Lynchburg, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellees were the complainants, and the appellants were the defendants. The will which was the subject of controversy in this case was in the words and figures following, to-wit: “June 13th. “Whereas life is uncertain I deem it advisable to make some disposition of my property, viz.: “My interest in the Main street property. “My interest in the Chnrch street property.
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Appeal from a decree of the Corporation Court of the city of Lynchburg, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellees were the complainants, and the appellants were the defendants. The will which was the subject of controversy in this case was in the words and figures following, to-wit: “June 13th. “Whereas life is uncertain I deem it advisable to make some disposition of my property, viz.: “My interest in the Main street property. “My interest in the Chnrch street property. “My interest in the Magruders’, home, Amherst county. “The North Cut place, Amherst county. “The little place adjoining…
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Cassie Lee Smith and Shelton A. Smith, her husband, Anne Scott Hunt and William Dabney Hunt, the last two infants under twenty-one years of age, by Shelton A. Smith, their next friend, filed their bill in the Corporation Court of the city of Lynchburg, from which it appears that Cornelia T. Holcombe, *702a widow, died in November, 1890, leaving no descendants, having first made and published her last will and testament, dated the 13th of June, 1889. This will was not produced in court for probate, and on the 16th of February, 1891, John Q. Adams…
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