Jameson v. Jameson's Adm'x
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from three decrees of circuit court of Culpeper county, rendered April 2, 1883, September 17,1887, and June 4, 1888, respectively, on the petition filed, in a pending suit to settle the estate of William Major, deceased, by Mrs. Kate Jameson as administratrix and distributee of the estate of her daughter, Eliza Corbin Jameson, deceased, for the construction of William Major’s will and the payment of her intestate’s'share of a legacy thereunder.
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Appeal from three decrees of circuit court of Culpeper county, rendered April 2, 1883, September 17,1887, and June 4, 1888, respectively, on the petition filed, in a pending suit to settle the estate of William Major, deceased, by Mrs. Kate Jameson as administratrix and distributee of the estate of her daughter, Eliza Corbin Jameson, deceased, for the construction of William Major’s will and the payment of her intestate’s'share of a legacy thereunder. The decree was in favor of the petitioner, and Philip L. Jameson, one of the legatees, filed- a bill to rehear the decree of April 2, 1888, but…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The case is as follows: William Major, the elder, died in 1848, having first made and published his last will and testament, as to the fourth clause of which this controversy has arisen, by which he made provision for his daughter, Elizabeth T. C. Jamesonjfor her life, and, after her death, for her surviving children and the issue of such as might be dead.
The life-tenant died in 1871, and in 1883 the appellee, Kate Jameson, filed her petition in the chancery cause then pending in the circuit court of Culpeper for the settlement of William Major’s estate, the object of which petition was to…
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