LYNCHBURG COLLEGE v. CENTRAL FIDELITY

Record Nos. 910154, 910170 and 910171.

410 S.E.2d 617 (1991)

LYNCHBURG COLLEGE, et al., v. CENTRAL FIDELITY BANK, et al. The COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY IN VIRGINIA v. CENTRAL FIDELITY BANK, et al. AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, VIRGINIA DIVISION, INCORPORATED v. CENTRAL FIDELITY BANK, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

Rehearing Denied January 10, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Levy, Suffolk (Alexander W. Bell, Lynchburg, on briefs), for appellant Lynchburg College, in Record No. 910154.

A. David Hawkins, Jr., Overby, Overby, Hawkins & Selz, Rustburg, on briefs, for appellant Patrick Henry Boys Home, in Record No. 910154.

Archibald Wallace, III, Richmond (Roland C. Woodward, Sands, Anderson, Marks & Miller on brief), for appellees Lucille Tuck Blanks, Cindy Wilson Hite, Sarah Chandler, Ernest Mullins, William R. Pittard, Jacqueline P. Pittard, Ralph M. Pittard, Esther R. Pittard, Valleda P. Chandler, Harriett P. Beales, Grace Allen P. Sydnor, Henry S. Pittard, Estate of Margaret P. Chewning, Robert C. Pittard, Jr., Connie Pittard Kimmerle, Peggy P. Pittard, Christine P. Fee, A.T. Pittard, Jr., Margaret C. Pittard, Johnnie E. Pittard, Audrey P. Pittard, Mary Lee P. Nash, Charlotte E. Pittard, Emma May P. Vaughan, Clara P. Whitley, Clarence Louis Pittard, Anne Pittard, Samuel Y. Clarke, Jr., Sandra C. Clarke, Samuel Y. Clarke, III, Allon Bruce Clarke, Rebecca B. Crump and Joseph P. Brooks, in all cases.

C. Daniel Stevens, Richmond (E. Ford Stephens, Richmond, Edwin B. Baker, Keysville, Christian, Barton, Epps, Brent & Chappell, Richmond, Baker, Williams & Green, Keysville, on brief), for appellees William G. Pittard, Pattie D. Pittard, William G. Pittard, Jr. and Garland D. Pittard, in all cases.

(Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., Paul J. Forch, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., C. Tabor Cronk, Asst. Atty. Gen., Caroline L. Lockerby, Asst. Atty. Gen., on briefs), for appellant, in Record No. 910170.

W. Scott Street, III, Richmond (A. Peter Brodell, Williams, Mullen, Christian & Dobbins, on briefs), for appellant, in Record No. 910171.

Present: All the Justices.


COMPTON, Justice.

Louis G. Pittard, a resident of Clarksville, Mecklenburg County, died in February 1989, leaving a will drawn by an attorney dated in September 1987. Item I of the will provides:

"I desire my just debts and all expenses of the administration of my estate, including such taxes as may be levied against my estate, paid as soon after my death as practicable."

In the will, the testator made 38 cash bequests, a gift of mineral rights,...

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