Lingle v. Cook's adm'rs
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Rockingham county, brought by some of the legatees of John Cook, deceased, against his administrators and their sureties and others for a settlement of the accounts of the administrators, and a distribution of the estate.
1Opinion of the Court
Moncure, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
In 1860, John Cook, of the county of Rockingham, *265died, leaving a large estate, real and personal, worth more than a hundred thousand dollars, but neither a wife or any issue. He left a will, however, dated in 1859, he gave his estate, after the payment of his debts, first to the children then living of his nephew Robert B. Cook, to the extent of the sum of $2,500; and, second, to all his brothers and sisters who might be living at his death, and all the children of his brothers and sisters, except Clarissa Mauek and John Lingle and their…
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