Straughan v. Wright
Court of Appeals of Virginia
This was an appeal from the Chancery Court of Fredericksburg, where William Wright and others filed their bill against Richard Wright and others, praying partition of a tract of land. The facts are set forth at large in the following opinion:
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Green
delivered his opinion, in which the other Judges concurred.*
Richard Wright, by his will dated in 1740, devised to his son Francis, a tract of land in Lower Machodick, which had been given to the testator by his brother John Wright, and also, after the death of his wife, the tract of land on which the testator lived, to him arid his heirs forever. Francis Wright was then,- as appears by the will, under the age of eighteen. Francis made his will in December, 1775, and died before the 26th of March, 1776. By this will, he directed that the land he had purchased of John Rust, should be…
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