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BAILEY v. FORD

Record No. 770109.

243 S.E.2d 484 (1978)

Garnet H. BAILEY et al. v. Etta Bailey FORD et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 21, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Wayne Sprinkle, Portsmouth, for appellants.

J. Stanley Livesay, Jr., Portsmouth (Schlitz, Levy & Livesay, Ltd., Portsmouth, on brief), for appellees.

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

COMPTON, Justice.

In this appeal from a decree in a declaratory judgment proceeding at equity, we review the chancellor's interpretation of the holographic will of the late Lillian Estelle Whitley Bailey. The controversy, precipitated by the deaths of Irvin Lee Bailey, a son of the testatrix, and his second wife, Carol, in a common disaster, concerns a parcel of land in the City of Chesapeake.

The contest is between...

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