WOMBLE v. GUNTER


95 S.E.2d 213 (1956)

198 Va. 522

Mary WOMBLE et al. v. Benjamin T. GUNTER, Jr., et al. Lafayette H. PARRAMORE, Sr., et al. v. Benjamin T. GUNTER, Jr., et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Rehearing Denied January 21, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

In Womble v. Gunter:

Thomas L. Woodward, Suffolk (Clarence E. Hodges, Arlington, Mears & Mears, Eastville, on the brief), for appellants.

J. Brooks Mapp, Keller (William King Mapp, Mapp & Mapp, Keller, on the brief), for appellees.

In Parramore v. Gunter:

Thomas N. Downing, Newport News, Va., W. G. Mordecai, Raleigh, N. C. (Newman, Allaun & Downing, Newport News, Va., Mordecai, Mills & Parker, Raleigh, N. C., on the brief), for appellants.

J. Brooks Mapp, Keller, Thomas L. Woodward, Suffolk (William King Mapp, Keller, Clarence E. Hodges, Arlington, Mapp & Mapp, Keller, Mears & Mears, Eastville, on the brief), for appellees.

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


HUDGINS, Chief Justice.

George F. Parramore, Sr., died testate on June 4, 1945. His somewhat complicated will, including five codicils, was duly probated and Benj. T. Gunter, Jr., and Quinton G. Nottingham qualified as executors. The testator devised and bequeathed all of his property in various amounts and proportions to his ten living children and numerous grandchildren.

On May 16, 1947, all the legatees and devisees of the testator, one being named as respondent...

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