FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST v. HUTCHINGS


163 S.E.2d 178 (1968)

209 Va. 158

The FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST v. Alberta A. A. HUTCHINGS et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

September 6, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Redfern, Jr., Norfolk (Wolcott, Redfern, Spencer & Rivers, Norfolk, on brief), for appellant.

No brief or argument for appellees.

Before EGGLESTON, C. J., and BUCHANAN, SNEAD, I'ANSON, CARRICO, GORDON, and HARRISON, JJ.,


EGGLESTON, Chief Justice.

Alberta A. A. Hutchings and others, alleging that they were among the heirs at law of Beulah A. Farrar, who had died on December 10, 1965, filed a bill in the court below against The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and others, praying for the construction of a holographic will of the decedent which had been admitted to probate in the clerk's office of the lower court on January 10, 1966. The will read as follows:

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