LOVE v. ROPER


93 S.E.2d 282 (1956)

198 Va. 263

Grace Eloise LOVE and Frances Cooper Love v. Willson B. ROPER et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Rehearing Denied September 4, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Joseph Baecher and O. Eugene Pinion, Norfolk (M. Watkins Booth, Petersburg, on the brief), for appellants.

Charles Edgar Gilliam, Petersburg (Frederick H. Cole, Philip Freeman, William Earle White and J. Thompson Wyatt, Petersburg, on the brief), for appellees.

Before HUDGINS, Chief Justice, and EGGLESTON, SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, MILLER, SMITH and WHITTLE, JJ.


HUDGINS, Chief Justice.

Two decisive questions are raised on this appeal—one is the construction of the pertinent clause of Henry C. Roper's will, the other is whether the two five thousand dollar legacies therein bequeathed, with certain limitations, to LeRoy R. Love and John M. Love have been substituted or converted by the act of the parties from personalty into realty. The decision of both questions turns upon the facts, which are substantially as follows...

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