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POWELL v. HOLLAND

Record No. 801168.

299 S.E.2d 509 (1983)

Wilma POWELL, et al. v. Shirley T. HOLLAND, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 21, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua Pretlow, Jr., Suffolk (Carl E. Eason, Jr., Pretlow, Pretlow & Moore, P.C., Suffolk, on brief), for appellants.

J. Edward Moyler, Jr., James E. Rainey, Franklin (Moyler, Moyler, Rainey & Cobb, Franklin, on brief), for appellees.

Before CARRICO, C.J., and COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON, THOMPSON, STEPHENSON and RUSSELL, JJ.

POFF, Justice.

We are asked to review a decree which construed the will of Pattie Barnes Holland (Pattie) to devise a fee simple estate in certain real property to her husband, Hardy J. Holland (Hardy).

The subject property is an undivided 1/9 interest in the "Jones property" which Pattie inherited from Hendricks T. Jones in 1927. Pattie's holographic will, dated September 3, 1946, and admitted to probate shortly after her death in 1956, provided as follows...

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