Moore v. Gregory

This is an appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of the city of Richmond, entered on October 9, 1923, and the controversy between the parties grows out of two agreements entered into between numerous heirs at law of Samuel G. Atkins, deceased, one on December 3, 1915, and one on December 15, 1915.

Samuel G. Atkins was a wealthy bachelor living in Richmond at the time of his death, November 30, 1915, and left an estate estimated by him at about $400,000.00, but which proved later to be nearer $500,000.00. He left a will written June 15, 1904, which was probated in the Chancery Court of the…