Clark v. Hugo
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Norfolk in a contested will case. Judgment for contestants. Proponent assigns error. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Kelly, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is the sequel to Hugo v. Clark, 125 Va. 126, 99 S. E. 521. The question is whether a certain paper dated December 27, 1916, is the true last will and testament of Cyrus Warden, deceased. After the case was here before, it was twice tried in the circuit court. The first trial resulted in a verdict for the will. The court set this verdict aside, and at the next trial there was a verdict against the will, upon which the judgment now under review was entered.
The paper in question purported to bequeath and devise all of Warden’s property to Eva…
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