TATE v. CHUMBLEY


57 S.E.2d 151 (1950)

190 Va. 480

TATE et al. v. CHUMBLEY. DOBYNS v. TATE et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

January 16, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart B. Campbell, R. William Arthur, Wytheville, for C. C. Tate et al.

Ted Dalton, Richard H. Poff, Radford, for J. M. Chumbley.

Crowell, Deeds & Sutherland, Pulaski, for Thomas M. Dobyns, Junior.

Before HUDGINS, C. J., and GREGORY, EGGLESTON, SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, STAPLES and MILLER, JJ.


MILLER, Justice.

Margaret S. Tate, an unmarried woman about ninety years of age, a patient in the Southwestern State Hospital, Marion, Virginia, died in that institution on November 30, 1947.

The object of this litigation is to determine, which, if either, of two paper writings, both being testamentary in character, dated respectively April 27, 1915, and November 29, 1916, each of which undertakes to dispose of her...

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