Purdie v. Jones
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an appeal by John E. Purdie and Henrietta E., his wife, from the decree of the circuit court of Surry county, made on the 30th of October, 1873, dismissing their petition for a rehearing of two decrees made—one on the 11th of May, 1863, and the other on the 27th of October, 1863—in a cause depending in said court, in which said Henrietta E. Jones and others were plaintiffs, and Blair Pegram and others were defendants.
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This was an appeal by John E. Purdie and Henrietta E., his wife, from the decree of the circuit court of Surry county, made on the 30th of October, 1873, dismissing their petition for a rehearing of two decrees made—one on the 11th of May, 1863, and the other on the 27th of October, 1863—in a cause depending in said court, in which said Henrietta E. Jones and others were plaintiffs, and Blair Pegram and others were defendants. The case is-fully stated by Judge Anderson in his opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
At the October term, 1857, of the circuit court of Surry county, a decree was pronounced in a chancery cause therein depending, wherein Henrietta E. Jones, the widow of Boling Jones, deceased; William C. Jones, a brother and legatee of said decedent, and William E. B. Puffin, his executor, were parties plaintiff, and the other heirs and distributees of said decedent, some of whom were infants, *829were defendants, directing the sale of a tract of four hundred and eleven acres of land, which said decedent, by his last will, devised to his wife, the said Henrietta, for and-during her natural life,…
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