Hulvey v. Hulvey
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Rockingham county, pronounced April 19, 1893, in a suit in chancery wherein appellants were the complainants, and the appellees were the defendants.
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Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Rockingham county, pronounced April 19, 1893, in a suit in chancery wherein appellants were the complainants, and the appellees were the defendants. The tract of land in controversy was conveyed to John Hulvey, Sr., by Isaac Weanig and wife, by deed bearing date August 4, 1849, recorded December 28, 1849. The same land was conveyed to Mel vina Hulvey (widow of John Hulvey, Sr.,) for life, with remainder in fee to George Custer and John Hulvey (son of John Hulvey, Sr.,) by Jacob Minnick, by deed bearing date June 20, 1874. The record does not…
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
In the year 1849 John Hulvey, Sr., purchased a tract of seventy-one acres of land, lying in Rockingham county, received a conveyance therefor, which was duly recorded, and took and held possession of the land from that time until the year 1872, when he died intestate, leaving a widow and ten children.
His widow, who was his second wife, and his only son by that marriage, continued in possession of the land after her husband’s death. In the year 1874 Jacob Minnick made a conveyance of the same land to the widow for life, with *184remainder to her two sons, (one the son of John Hulvey, Sr., and the…
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