THRASHER v. THRASHER


118 S.E.2d 820 (1961)

202 Va. 594

Samuel Howard THRASHER et al. v. Robert Earl THRASHER et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

March 6, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Parker, Richard B. Spindle, III, Norfolk (Thomas L. Sawyer, Norfolk, on the brief), for appellants.

James N. Garrett, Portsmouth (Allen J. Gordon, Portsmouth, on the brief), for appellees, Robert Earl Thrasher, and others.

Howard I. Legum, Norfolk (Louis B. Fine, Jerrold G. Weinberg, Fine, Fine, Legum, Weinberg & Schwan, Norfolk, on the brief), for appellees, Mary E. Thrasher, and others.

Paul M. Lipkin, Norfolk (Goldblatt & Lipkin, Norfolk, on the brief), for appellees, Nellie Mae Ross Thrasher, and others.

Before EGGLESTON, C. J., and SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, WHITTLE SNEAD and I'ANSON, JJ.


BUCHANAN, Justice.

This is a suit in equity brought to have partition among its owners of a tract of 520 acres of land in Norfolk county, and the controversy is on the question of who are the owners.

The tract was owned by Mrs. Dora B. Thrasher, who died February 18, 1934, leaving a will dated December 16, 1931, which was probated March 2, 1934. In the first four clauses she directed payment of her debts and disposed...

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