Boxwell v. Affleck
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Clarke county rendered 2d November, 1883, in tbe suit of P. J. Affleck, James W. Thomas, Gr. E. S. Phillips, John S. Thompson, John M. Pope, John S. Ritchie and Alexander Marshall, who sued as trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church south at Berryville, against Charles Boxwell, Charles Radley, John Jackson, John W. Bremer, C. Y. B. Boxwell, and John A. Blake, duly appointed trustees of the Methodist church at Berryville.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Clarke county rendered 2d November, 1883, in tbe suit of P. J. Affleck, James W. Thomas, Gr. E. S. Phillips, John S. Thompson, John M. Pope, John S. Ritchie and Alexander Marshall, who sued as trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church south at Berryville, against Charles Boxwell, Charles Radley, John Jackson, John W. Bremer, C. Y. B. Boxwell, and John A. Blake, duly appointed trustees of the Methodist church at Berryville. The object of the suit was to determine the title to a certain house and lot in Berryville, which, by his will in 1854, Joseph Roble…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
This suit was instituted by the appellees, as trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church south at Berryville, against the appellants, as trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church at Berryville, to determine the ownership of real estate situated in the town of Berryville, in the county of Clarke, devised by the *404will of Joseph Noble, deceased, to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church of the said town of Berryville.
The said will was admitted to probate in 1854. The property was devised to Elizabeth Clint for life by the second clause. The third clause is as follows:
“After the death of…
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