Cosgray v. Core
West Virginia Supreme Court
At the June rules, 1856, Michael Core filed his bill in the circuit court of Monongalia county, Virginia, against Ignatius: Cosgray and Flizabeth his wife, Daniel Diamond, Henry Diamond, Abraham Skriver and Isaac Wharton, in which it was alleged that Daniel Diamond, late of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, made his last will and testament and departed this life; that said will on the 23rd day of January, 1827, was duly proven and admitted to record in the prohate court of said…
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At the June rules, 1856, Michael Core filed his bill in the circuit court of Monongalia county, Virginia, against Ignatius: Cosgray and Flizabeth his wife, Daniel Diamond, Henry Diamond, Abraham Skriver and Isaac Wharton, in which it was alleged that Daniel Diamond, late of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, made his last will and testament and departed this life; that said will on the 23rd day of January, 1827, was duly proven and admitted to record in the prohate court of said county of Fayette, and a duly authenticated copy thereof liad been produced fin the county court of Monongalia county,…
1Opinion of the CourtMaxwell, J.
Daniel Diamond was the owner of a tract of about 714 acres of land, situate in Monongalia county, which by his will he devised to his three children Daniel Diamond, Henry Diamond, and Elizabeth Cosgray, and to the children of his daughters Catherine Smilie and Jane Barnes. The will wras admitted to probate on the 28rd day of January, 1827. It does not appear when the testator died, but it must have been a very short time before that day as there is a codicil attached to the will bearing date on the 8th day of December, 1826.
*368Not long after -the will was admitted to record Ignatius Cosgray, the…
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