Norris & Co. v. Jones
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of the city of Richmond, pronounced June 7, 1894. This was a suit in chancery instituted by the appellants against D’Orsey Jones, his mother, Mrs. Harriet Jones, and others, the chief object of which was to set aside a gift made by D’Orsey Jones to his mother of his interest in the estate of his brother, Charles B. Jones, deceased.
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Appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of the city of Richmond, pronounced June 7, 1894. This was a suit in chancery instituted by the appellants against D’Orsey Jones, his mother, Mrs. Harriet Jones, and others, the chief object of which was to set aside a gift made by D’Orsey Jones to his mother of his interest in the estate of his brother, Charles B. Jones, deceased. The bill charges that D’Orsey Jones is indebted to the complainants in the sum of $1,365.60, contracted in March and July, 1890; that D’Orsey Jones is not a resident of the State; that Charles B. Jones had died in…
1Opinion of the Court
Eiely J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellee, D’Orsey Jones, was one of a number of distributees of his brother, Charles B. Jones, who died intestate on December 26, 1890, leaving considerable personal estate as well as some real estate. The decedent made the request a short time before his death, that his brothers and sisters would give their shares of his estate to their aged mother to enable her to pay off a mortgage for several thousand dollars which rested on her home. In accordance with this request they signed an order on January 16, 1891, addressed to Joseph B. Montgomery,…
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