Medley v. Medley
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Halifax county, entered April 6, 1881, in the chancery suit therein pending, wherein Lucy Y. Medley, devisee of Granville O. Medley, deceased, was complainant, and Rebecca A. Ballou, Solomon Lea, and others, heirs-at-law of Lorenzo Lea, deceased, were defendants. The decree of the circuit court being against the complainant, Lucy Y. Medley, she obtained an appeal to this court.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The controversy arises out of the following facts: By the sixth clause of his last will and testament, Isaac Medley devised to his son, Granville, certain lands as follows: “I devise to my son, Granville C. Medley, my lands lying between Mirey creek,” &c., “bounded,” &c. “I also devise to my son, Granville, all the lands that I have devised to my wife during her life or widowhood, the possession whereof the said Gran-ville is to be entitled to at the termination of the estate so devised to my wife by her death or marriage, which ever shall first…
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