Hall v. Palmer
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Halifax county, rendered February 16th, 1889, in a chancery cause wherein P. J. Palmer and others, the- heirs-at-law of Susan J. Hall, deceased, were complainants, and Prudence E. Hall, the widow and sole devisee of Elijah 0. Hall, deceased, was defendant. The decree being adverse to the defendant, she appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
In a suit for the partition of a tract of land in the said county of Halifax, the true construction of the will of the late Philip Johnson,-who died in 1849, was drawn in question. *355The sections or clauses of the said will drawn in question by this appeal are the third and eighth clauses of the said will.
The third clause is as follows: “ I give and bequeath to my five daughters as follows—viz., Nancy H. Terry, Judith Palmer, Mary 0. Taylor, J. Hall, and Frances Maria Armes—twothirds of my estate now in possession, to be equally divided between them.”
The eighth clause is as follows: “ I will…
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