Commonwealth v. Herbert & Herbert
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Loudoun county, on a motion to correct an erroneous assessment of an inheritance tax. Judgment for petitioners. Common-, wealth assigns error..
1Opinion of the Court
Kelly, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court. ■
Henry Grafton Dulany died in 1890 leaving a will whereby, after making sundry other testamentary provisions, he devised and bequeathed all the residue, constituting the greater part, of a large personal and real estate, to trustees, upon such terms and limitations that in 1917,' *293twenty-seven years after the will was probated, two of his sisters and two of his nieces, who had theretofore only a contingent interest, succeeded to' the entire residuum in fee simple by virtue of an executory limitation operating as a contingent remainder. In the…
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