Knight v. Kiser
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Virginia, at Lynchburg. Action at law by Virginia Lee Kiser against Minnie Evelyn Krise Knight. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPP, Circuit Judge.
In the court below plaintiff in error was defendant and defendant in error plaintiff; they will be so designated *870in this opinion. Facts which are either undisputed, or which, as we think, the jury were wárranted in finding, may be summarized as follows :
Philip A. Krise, a retired banker of Lynchburg, Va.; died February 1, 1917, in his eighty-fifth year, leaving an estate appraised at upwards of $840,000. He had been twice married. His first wife, Virginia Davis, died August 8, 1914, and in the following March he married the defendant, then about 38 years old. He left no…
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