Griffin v. Birkhead
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of York county, rendered November 18, 1882, in the suit wherein J. Birkhead and others were complainants and Robert G. Griffin and others were defendants. The decree being adverse to said complainants they appealed here.
1Opinion of the CourtFauntleroy, J.
This suit was for partition of certain lands which had belonged to Elizabeth Maeauley, who, dying in 1830, devised the said lands to her two children, Patrick Maeauley and Helen Maeauley, which latter married, in the lifetime of her said mother, Robert Anderson. On the 15th day of February, 1830, the will of Elizabeth Maeauley was duly probated and admitted to record in the county court of York county; and on the 19th day of April, 1830, Robert Anderson, the son-in-law of the said testatrix, who was named in her said will as one of the executors thereof, and one of the objects of her bounty,…
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