JARVIS v. TONKIN

Record No. 871309.

380 S.E.2d 900 (1989)

Mary Ella Wood Wickers JARVIS v. Nadir TONKIN, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 9, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Burnside, for appellant.

Joseph P. Massey (Vincent L. Parker, Portsmouth, W. McMillan Powers, Cooper & Davis, P.C., Portsmouth, on brief), for appellees.

Present: All the Justices.


RUSSELL, Justice.

In this devisavit vel non case, a commissioner in chancery reported that the decedent's last will was entitled to probate. The chancellor disagreed, sustaining exceptions to the commissioner's report on the basis that the evidence showed that the will was procured by undue influence exerted by the principal beneficiary. The correctness of that ruling is the sole question on appeal.

Ella Myers Wood died in Portsmouth in 1984 at the...

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