Hancock v. Thornhill

The material facts disclosed by this record are these: Prior to the year 1888, the lots in question, and other *104property located in the city of Lynchburg, belonged to Ammon G. Hancock, who devised the same to his wife for life, with remainder in fee to his four children, namely, James Hancock, Lilly H. Thornhill, Ernest J. Hancock and Edwin A. Hancock. The two lots involved fronted on Cabell street and extended back between parallel lines to Blackwater street. On each of these lots was located a large tobacco factory; the buildings being separated by an open space forty-eight or fifty feet in…