Legal Opinion
Amos v. Coffey
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided September 7, 1984No. Record 820627PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPoff, J.
We granted this appeal to consider whether the chancellor erred by excluding parol evidence proffered in aid of the construction of a deed.
R.L. Shelton, by will probated in 1952, devised all his real estate to his wife for life or during widowhood, with remainder in fee to his 12 children. Included in his estate was a farm located in Pittsylvania County southwest of Gretna. In 1957, Lottie Shelton Amos, one of Shelton’s children, and her husband executed a deed conveying to B. E. Coffey “all of those certain tracts or parcels of land ... in or near the Town of Gretna”. Following the metes-…
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