Hartman v. Strickler
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Ro anoke county, rendered October 10, 1884, in a chancery caiise wherein John N. Strickler and Lucy R, his wife were complainants, and Nathaniel B. Hartman was the defendant. There was an issue of devisavii vel non in the cause to determine whether a writing which N. B. Hartman offered as the will of George Hartman, deceased, was the will of the decedent or not. . The jury-found that it was not.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Ro anoke county, rendered October 10, 1884, in a chancery caiise wherein John N. Strickler and Lucy R, his wife were complainants, and Nathaniel B. Hartman was the defendant. There was an issue of devisavii vel non in the cause to determine whether a writing which N. B. Hartman offered as the will of George Hartman, deceased, was the will of the decedent or not. . The jury-found that it was not. N. B. Hartman moved the circuit court to set aside the.verdict and award him a new trial of the issue. The motion was overruled; and N. B. Hartman obtained an…
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The bill was filed to impeach a paper writing admitted to probate in the county court of the said county, as the true last will and testament of George Hartman, deceased. The complainants in the bill, the appellees here, are John N. Strickler and Lucy, his wife, the latter being a daughter and one of the heirs-at-law of the decedent. The bill charges, in general terms, that the paper writing, so admitted to probate, is not the will of the decedent, and prays that an issue devisavit vel non be made up and tried at the bar of the court, as directed…
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