Legal Opinion
Rickard v. Rickard
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided November 16, 1922PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Kelly, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
M. C. Rickard died in 1921, leaving no children and survived by his widow, Sarah Rickard, and sundry collateral relatives, his heirs at law.
About a week or ten days after his death there was found in a locked drawer among his private papers, two documents pinned together, hereinafter usually designated as paper No. 1 and paper No. 2, as follows:
Paper No. 1. — “I, M. C. Rickard, of near Calvary, Shenandoah county, Va., declare this to be my last will and testament.
*488“(1) I give and devise to Mary E. Bowers for life and then to her four children (now…
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