Legal Opinion
Grimes v. Crouch
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided February 26, 1940No. Record No. 2146PublishedCited by 16 opinions
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtHolt, J.
C. A. Grimes, now dead, left this written by himself:
“Ever thing left to sister for life times.”
“C. A. Grimes.”
By it he undertook to dispose of an estate consisting of money in bank, $1,191.49, intangible personal property, $8,679.37, and real estate, $4,850.00.
E. 0. Russell, county clerk of Loudoun county, and, as such, clerk of its circuit court, upon proper proof, admitted it to probate on October 1, 1937, as the true last will and testament of C. A. Grimes.
On February 7, 1937, John T. Grimes and Rhoda A. Ridgeway, brother and sister of the decedent, instituted this suit, the main purpose…
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