Lightfoot's Executors v. Colgin
Supreme Court of Virginia
i UPON an appeal from a decree of the Superior Court of Chancery for the Williamsburg District. The bill was filed in behalf of Anne C., widow of William Lightfoot, deceased, (who, afterwards, during the pendency of the suit, was married to John Colgin,) against the executors and children of the said Lightfoot by his first wife, and William Allen their trustee, for an assignment to the com'plainant of her dower and distributive share of the real and personal estate of said…
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i UPON an appeal from a decree of the Superior Court of Chancery for the Williamsburg District. The bill was filed in behalf of Anne C., widow of William Lightfoot, deceased, (who, afterwards, during the pendency of the suit, was married to John Colgin,) against the executors and children of the said Lightfoot by his first wife, and William Allen their trustee, for an assignment to the com'plainant of her dower and distributive share of the real and personal estate of said decedent; and that certain deeds which he had executed in favour of those children, be set aside, as fraudulent…
1Opinion of the Court
Wednesday, February 14th, 1816, the Judges pronounced their opinions.
Judge Coalter.
William Lighifoot of Charles City, m the year 1807, intermarried with the female appellee, by whom he had two children.
Having taken up, very unjustly it would seem, an unfavourable opinion of his wife, and she having also displeased him by a refusal to relinquish her dow'er right in some lands, conveyed to one of his sons by a former marriage, he took advice how he might dispose of the greater part of his personal estate in favour of his other children by that marriage, so as to exclude his then wife and the…
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