Dearing v. Dearing
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Rappahannock county. Becree for defendants. Complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtWest, J.
This suit involves a contest over the will of Alfred Willis Dearing, who died in Rappahannock county, Va., on September 9, 1916, in his eighty-ninth year, unmarried and without issue, leaving an estate valued a,t more than a half-million dollars.
His heirs at law are, the contestants, R. Alvin Dearing, William A. Dearing and Janie E. Dearing, nephews and niece, and Robert Scott Dearing, a grandnephew, and his five nephews and five nieces, to-wit: Eugenia Dearing, Alice Dearing, Eva Calloway and John. Dearing, of Georgia; Alfred E. Dearing, of Tennessee; Eugenia, Cox, of Amherst, Va.; J. A.…
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