Legal Opinion
Fugate v. Moore
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided September 17, 1890PublishedCited by 24 opinions
Argued at Wytheville. Decided at Staunton. Appeal from decree of circuit court of Lee county rendered dune 21, 1887, in a suit wherein Nathan IT. Moore and others were complainants and the appellant, Peter P. Fugate, executor of M. B. Overton, deceased, was the defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The testator, at his death in 1§80, was domiciled in Tennessee, and there the will was proved and the executor qualified. *1046jSTo administration upon the estate has ever been granted in'Virginia. The legacy sued for is claimed under the second clause of the will, which is as follows:
“2d. I give and bequeath to Martha J. Combs, daughter of Virginia A. Combs, deceased, five hundred dollars out of the G. 33. Short debt, when collected and put at interest, including-the amount due her in my hands from the estate of Virginia A. Combs, deceased; and if the…
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