Stanley v. Stanley's Adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Hanover county, pronounced April 26, 1893, in a suit in chancery wherein the appellee, ¥m. J. Leake, administrator with the will of Eliza A. Stanley, deceased, annexed, was the complainant, and the appellants and others were the defendants. This was a suit in chancery brought by ¥m.
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Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Hanover county, pronounced April 26, 1893, in a suit in chancery wherein the appellee, ¥m. J. Leake, administrator with the will of Eliza A. Stanley, deceased, annexed, was the complainant, and the appellants and others were the defendants. This was a suit in chancery brought by ¥m. J. Leake, administrator with the will of Eliza A. Stanley, deceased, annexed, against the devisees and legatees, heirs and distributees of the said Eliza A. Stanley, praying a construction of the will of the testatrix, and that her estate be administered under the order…
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
The question presented by the petition for appeal in this case is the construction of the fourth and fifth clauses of the will of Eliza A. Stanley.
The fifth clause is as follows: “ I give and bequeath to Mary L. Stanley the interest that may accrue on one-fourth part of my money, bonds, and securities that I may die possessed of, during the period of her natural life, and at her death I give and bequeath this one-fourth part of my money, bonds, and securities, from which the said Mary L. Stanley is to derive the accruing interest for her life, to the children of Mary L. Stanley, to be equally…
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