Bowen's v. Bowen
Supreme Court of Virginia
. Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Albemarle county, declaring a will invalid.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentis, J.
A paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Lucius M. Bowen, deceased, in which he bequeathed and devised his entire estate to H. A. Sandridge, having been admitted to probate by the clerk of the court, one of the heirs at law, T. F. Bowen, appealed therefrom to the circuit court under section 2639-a of the Code. Upon such appeal the court made up the issue to be tried by the jury between the proponents of the will, Early and Sandridge, as complainants, and the contestants, the heirs at law of the decedent, as the defendants. On this issue the jury found that the will was…
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