Brown v. Hall
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Tazewell county, rendered May 26th-, 1886, in the chancery cause wherein O. M. Brown and others were plaintiffs, and Thomas Hall was defendant.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Tazewell county, rendered May 26th-, 1886, in the chancery cause wherein O. M. Brown and others were plaintiffs, and Thomas Hall was defendant. This is a controversy as to whether the following paper, propounded by Thomas Hall as the holograph will of Lydia Hall, late of Tazewell county, Virginia, is her true last will and testament : “In the name of Gi-od, Amen, I, Lydia Hall, being of sound mind and disposing memory, and being impressed with the uncertainty of human life, and wishing to dispose of what property I have, do make this, my last will and…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
(after stating the case), delivered the opinion of the court.
Preliminary to an examination of the questions presented by the bill of exceptions of the defendants in the issue devisavit vel non, it is necessary to notice, though very briefly, a question raised in the argument here by counsel for the appellee, who was the plaintiff in the trial of said issue.
The several objections taken by the defendants therein, to the rulings of the court during the trial of said issue, are embodied in one bill of exceptions which is certified, by the court. It is objected that, for this reason, the bill of…
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