Wampler v. Harrell
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Wythe county. Decree for the complainants. Defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
The controlling question in this case involves the mental capacity of Sallie Worrell and Pollie Harrell to make and execute a certain deed dated the 27th day of March, 1907, by which they conveyed their real estate to their nephew, D. H. Wampler, and of Sallie Worrell to make the will left by her when she died in July, 1907.
It appears that at the time of the transactions now called in question these two old people were living together, as they had done for many years prior thereto, upon a small tract of land containing in the aggregate forty-nine acres, situated about two miles from Rural…
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