Shoemaker v. Shoemaker's Administrator

The controversy involved in this appeal is with respect to a bond alleged to have been executed on the 1st day of August, 1908, by James M. Shoemaker, who it appears resided in Russell county, Virginia, was never married and *799had accumulated some property. His nearest relatives and heirs at law were four brothers, one sister and two nephews, children of a deceased brother; one of the brothers, Isaac Shoemaker, being a resident of Scott county, Va., whom James M. Shoemaker had been in the habit of visiting at irregular intervals, his visits being sometimes prolonged as much as two weeks or…