Daniel v. Lipscomb
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error from a decree of the Circuit Court of Cumberland county. Decree for defendants. Complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
The object of this suit is to construe certain clauses in the wills of Elizabeth W. Spencer and George W. Daniel, and ,to set up a remainder, by way of executory limitation, in the children of William Daniel in an undivided moiety of two tracts of land situated in Cumberland county, Virginia, known as the “Gibson” and “Springfield” tracts.
The circuit court held that the children of William Daniel took no interest in the moiety of the lands devised to John S. Daniel by the will of his father, George W. Daniel, construed either alone or read in connection with the will of Elizabeth W. Spencer,…
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