French v. Vradenburg
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Mathews county, in the chancery suit of French's Ex' ors. v. French & Others, in which a decree was rendered adverse to the defendant, Allie Y. French, an infant, who prosecutes this appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Whittle J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The essential question presented hy this record for decision involves the right of a devisee of real estate, encumbered by the testator subsequently to the execution of his will, to disappoint legatees, pecuniary and specific, by having the encumbrance discharged out of the personal estate, where the will directs the payment of all the debts of the testator and funeral expenses from any ready money or other personal property that he may have at the time of his death.
From an adverse decree, in a suit by the executors to construe the will and…
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