Yancey v. Radford
Supreme Court of Virginia
Argued at Wytheville. Decided at Eichmond. Appeal from decree of circuit court of Pulaski county rendered at its October term, 1887, in the chancery cause wherein J. Lawrence Eadford, Gabriel 0. Wharton and Nannie E., his wife, and Eichard H. Adams «and Elizabeth, his wife, were the complainants, and William T. Yancey, Jr., was the defendant.
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Argued at Wytheville. Decided at Eichmond. Appeal from decree of circuit court of Pulaski county rendered at its October term, 1887, in the chancery cause wherein J. Lawrence Eadford, Gabriel 0. Wharton and Nannie E., his wife, and Eichard H. Adams «and Elizabeth, his wife, were the complainants, and William T. Yancey, Jr., was the defendant. The object of this suit was to assert the claims of J. Lawrence Eadford and the female complainants as heirs of their sister, Mrs. Mary McO. Yancey, deceased, who in her lifetime was the defendant’s wife, and who died intestate and without having had…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
Lr. John B. Radford and Elizabeth C., his wife, of Montgomery county, Virginia, were the owners of valuable real estate. They had four children: Yannie R., the wife of GL C. 'Wharton; Elizabeth, who married R. IT. Adams; Mary McC., who married the appellant, William T. Yancey, Jr.; and a son, J. L. Radford. In 1869 Dr. Radford and wife executed a writing, not under seal, by which the said Wharton and wife were put in possession of a part of their real estate. In 1871 the said Yancey and wife, by leave of Dr. Radford, moved-upon and took possession of the northern one-half or part of the farm…
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