Adams v. Cowan

This suit involves the construction of the will of the late Miss Mary C. Cowan of Montgomery county, Virginia.

*3Miss Cowan died February 5, 1928, seized and possessed of quite a large estate, real and personal, which she undertook to dispose of by testamentary papers, which were duly probated, and which upon an issue devisavit vel non, later submitted to a jury, were established, by the jury’s verdict, affirmed by the court, as her last will and testament.

This will, consisting of several papers in the handwriting of the testatrix and signed by her, is here set out in full: “April, 1927.

“After…