Johnson v. Colley
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Goochland county, pronounced May IB, Í902, in a suit in chancery, wherein the heirs and distributees of John Newton Johnson were the complainants, and the appellant and others were the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
The question presented by this record is the validity of an alleged gift causa mortis. The facts are few, simple, and uncontradicted.
It appears that Joseph Newton Johnson, a bachelor advanced in life, lived in the county of Goochland in comfortable circumstances, being the owner of valuable real and personal property. The only persons living with him at the time of his death and for some time prior thereto were Lizzie Johnson, a negro woman, and her two illegitimate children, one of whom was Libby Carter Johnson, a little girl about 11 years of age, who, by her next friend and guardian ad…
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