Connolly v. Connolly
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an application by Rosa Ann Connolly to the .. fit J n , circuit court of Fairfax county, to be permitted to file a to review the decree of said court, which had been affirmed upon appeal by the court of appeals, admitting to probate a paper propounded as the will of Edmund Connolly. That case is reported in 27 Gratt. 313, under the name of Cody v. Conly & als.
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This was an application by Rosa Ann Connolly to the .. fit J n , circuit court of Fairfax county, to be permitted to file a to review the decree of said court, which had been affirmed upon appeal by the court of appeals, admitting to probate a paper propounded as the will of Edmund Connolly. That case is reported in 27 Gratt. 313, under the name of Cody v. Conly & als. The grounds upon which the application is made are set out in the opinion of the court delivered by Burks, J. The circuit court refused to allow the bill to be filed, and the petitioner applied to á judge of this court for an…
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
After the affirmance by this court of the decree of the circuit court of Fairfax county, in the case of Cody v. Conly & others, reported in 27 Gratt. 313, et seq., and within three years after said affirmance, the present appellant, Rosa A. Connolly, one of the heirs and next of kin of Edmund Connolly, deceased, presented her bill to the said circuit court, praying a review and reversal of the decree aforesaid, which established, on the verdict of a jury rendered on the trial of the issue directed, that a certain writing set out in the record, which had been admitted to probate in the county…
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