Wilkes' Administrator v. Wilkes
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Corporation Court of the city of Staunton. Decree for some of the defendants. One of the defendants appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
S. M. Wilkes, of Staunton, Va., departed this life on the 9th day of May, 1910, seized and possessed of considerable real and personal estate, leaving to survive him his widow, Nannie M. Wilkes, and as his only heir at law a son, Birl C. Wilkes, over the age of twenty-one years but of unsound mind. On May 28, 1910, a paper writing bearing date of the 11th day of March, 1910, purporting to be a holograph will left by the decedent, was produced in the corporation court of the city of Staunton by Nannie M. Wilkes, his widow, and the executrix named therein to act along with W. L. Brown, named as…
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