Legal Opinion

Guilfoil v. Hayes

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided January 13, 1938PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtEggleston, J.

Mary Hayes Guilfoil filed her bill in the court below attacking the validity of the will of William R. Hayes, which had been admitted to probate in the clerk’s office of said court within the preceding two years. The bill alleged that the decedent was at the time of his death domiciled in the State of New York, and had been for many years prior thereto; that the complainant was his sole heir at law and distributee under the laws of that State; that the said William R. Hayes was mentally incompetent to make the said will; and that it had been procured through the undue in*550fluence of the…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Williamson v. OsentonSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
  2. Cooper's Adm'r v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1917
  3. Commonwealth v. RutherfoordSupreme Court of Virginia · 1933
  4. Talley v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1920
  5. Bowen v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1919

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Hatfill v. FosterDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2006
  2. Goldsberry v. GreenUtah Supreme Court · 1938
  3. State-Planters Bank & Trust Co. of Richmond v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1940
  4. Fox v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1967
  5. Hayes v. ParkerSupreme Court of Virginia · 1941

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