Bolling v. Bolling
Supreme Court of Virginia
Robert Bolling, of the County of Dinwiddie, by his last Will, dated January 30lh, 1775, and proved in Court in March 1777, disposed of his property as follows : lu the first place, he directed his just debts and funeral expenses to be expeditiously and honourably paid by his Executors.
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Robert Bolling, of the County of Dinwiddie, by his last Will, dated January 30lh, 1775, and proved in Court in March 1777, disposed of his property as follows : lu the first place, he directed his just debts and funeral expenses to be expeditiously and honourably paid by his Executors. Next, he Item, be gave to his son Robert, his “ land and plantation, “ called Eaton’s, to be delivered to him so soon as he arrived “ to the age of twenty-cine years, to hold to him and his heirs “forever; also his lands at Squirrel Level, and that part of “his Namozeen tract which lies above Wells’s Road, to…
1Opinion of the Court
January 29th 1817.
Judge Roane
pronounced the Court’s opinion.
The Court, not deciding, absolutely, that the Appellant Mary M. Bolling had a life interest in the estates devised to the Appellee Thomas T. Bolling, under the Will of her husband Robert Rolling, nor that she had a strict right, under the same, to convert the whole profits of those estates to the support of herself and the children of the said Testator, although such are the present impressions of the Court, is of opinion that, after the great length of time which elapsed from the *340death of the said Testator and the probate of his…
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