McCoy v. McCoy
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Wise county confirming a commissioner’s report in a suit for the partition and distribution of a decedent’s estate. Complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
*831W. W. McCoy, in 1876 and prior thereto, was the owner or claimant of a boundary of land, situated in Wise county, Virginia, containing 720 acres or more, which at that time was of little value, and he seemed about that time to conceive the idea that he would make to some of his nine children advancements of a portion of the land, estimating that he would have for each about 80 acres.
In that year he gave, by way of advancement, to his son, R. C. C. McCoy, spoken of in this record as Chris. McCoy, about 80 acres of said land, then of the value of fifty cents per acre; but he made him no deed of…
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