Taylor v. Hopkins

C. S. Fitzhugh, a resident of Sparrows Point, Maryland, died intestate on December 27, 1950, possessed of about nineteen acres of land in Fauquier county, Virginia, on which was an uncompleted seven-room residence. Decedent, who had never married, was sixty-five years old when he died. He left as his heirs a sister, Ella Taylor, two nieces, Elizabeth Tyler and Estelle Coleman, and two grandnephews, Burnell Irby and Herbert Corbin.

On July 7, 1951, Ella Taylor instituted suit against the other four interested parties and sought partition of the real estate. Before adjudication upon any rights…