West v. Jones
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Halifax county, rendered September 9th, 1872, in the chancery cause wherein Thomas S. Jones and Mary, his wife, formerly Mary West, were complainants, and Mary A. West, widow and administratrix, and Elizabeth, Martha, and Addison L. West, the heirs and distributees of Beverly E. West, deceased, were defendants, the object being a settlement of the estate, and a division thereof between the parties.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Halifax county, rendered September 9th, 1872, in the chancery cause wherein Thomas S. Jones and Mary, his wife, formerly Mary West, were complainants, and Mary A. West, widow and administratrix, and Elizabeth, Martha, and Addison L. West, the heirs and distributees of Beverly E. West, deceased, were defendants, the object being a settlement of the estate, and a division thereof between the parties. The decree being unfavorable to Addison L. West, he obtained an appeal to this court. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
This appeal was allowed, without supersedeas, on the 4th day of June, 1874, and has repeatedly been called for argument here, and continued because of the sickness and absence of counsel by whom the errors were assigned, and was finally submitted for decision herein on the 12th day of December, 1888, which was the last day on which arguments were heard at the last term, being submitted for decision upon the petition for appeal and the transcript of the record, without other argument, written or oral, upon either side. The case is as follows: In the year 1864, one Beverly E. West, of the…
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