Jarvis v. Jarvis

Hatcher, Judge:

Perry Jarvis executed a will in 1917, devising to his second wife and his children by her, “all of my real estate, consisting of three certain tracts or parcels of land situated in Walton District, Roane County, West Virginia, containing in all about 109 acres.” Mr. Jarvis died in 1937. Between 1917 and 1937, he acquired a tract of 64 acres (subject to certain reservations) and the surface of a tract of 38 acres, both in Walton District of Roane County. The children of his first marriage claim in this suit that he died intestate as to the two tracts acquired between the dates…