McCormick v. Elsea
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Clarke county. Application for the allowance of counsel fees to he paid out of a fund under the control of court. Application refused.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
This controversy arose out of a suit in equity brought by *473Mary E. Smallwood (one of nine distributees of the estate of her mother, Letitia Elsea, deceased) and her daughter, Lillian Smallwood, against the administrator and remaining distributees.
The objects of the suit will appear from the material allegations of the bill, which are as follows: That Albert Elsea died intestate in August, 1903, survived by his widow, Letitia Elsea, and eight children, and a granddaughter, the child of a deceased son; that the decedent left a valuable estate, real and personal, and that W. W. Smallwood, the…
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