MUMAW v. MUMAW


203 S.E.2d 136 (1974)

214 Va. 573

James B. MUMAW v. Mary R. MUMAW et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 4, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph B. Hyman, M. Patton Echols, Jr., Arlington (Echols & Hyman, Arlington, on brief), for appellant.

F. Sloan Kuykendall, Winchester (William H. Logan, Woodstock, Kuykendall, Hall & Whitting, Winchester, on brief), for appellees.

Before SNEAD, C. J., and I'ANSON, CARRICO, HARRISON, COCHRAN, HARMAN and POFF, JJ.


I'ANSON, Justice.

This cause originated as a suit for partition of a 100-acre farm devised by the decedent, E. A. Mumaw, to his wife, Mary R. Mumaw, for life with remainder to decedent's seventeen nieces and nephews under the terms of a holographic will dated February 19, 1945, and admitted to probate on October 24, 1959.

The partition suit was filed about eight years after the death of E. A. Mumaw by the plaintiffs...

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