Tyson v. Scott
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Northampton county in a proceeding by mandamus. Judgment for the petitioner. Defendants assign error.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This suit originated in a petition for a mandamus filed by Clinton Scott and others in the Circuit Court of Northampton county, in which they show that on the 27th of July, 1910, Mrs. Henrietta S. Scherer departed this life after having executed her last will and testament, and after having executed what purported to he a codicil thereto; that oh the 2nd day of August, 1910, the executor named in the will presented the paper to R. W. Nottingham, then clerk of the Circuit Court for the county of Northampton, for probate, and it was accordingly…
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