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ARNOLD v. GROOBEY

77 S.E.2d 382 (1953)

195 Va. 214

ARNOLD et al. v. GROOBEY et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

September 10, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlton E. Holladay, Wakefield, Ernest W. Goodrich, Surry, Robert W. Arnold, Jr., Waverly, for appellants.

Ashburn, Agelasto & Sellers, H. M. Jarvis, Charles Kaufman, Norfolk, for appellees.

Before HUDGINS, C.J., and EGGLETON, SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, MILLER, SMITH, and WHITTLE, JJ.

SPRATLEY, Justice.

John M. Arnold, a resident of the City of Norfolk, Virginia, died September 7, 1950. He had been a practicing attorney in that city since 1905, and had formerly served as its Commonwealth's Attorney. His parents were dead, he was unmarried, and left no direct descendants.

On September 14, 1942, while a patient in a hospital in the City of Washington, D. C., he prepared an holographic will. The will recites that he had just been told of the...

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