WEST v. HINES

Record No. 920859.

429 S.E.2d 1 (1993)

Herman WEST, et al. v. Robert Lee HINES, Jr., Executor, etc., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 16, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Leigh Griffith, Nashville, TN, Robert N. Pollard, III, Richmond (Waller, Lansden, Dortch & Davis, Nashville, TN, Christian, Markham & Dolbeare, Richmond, on briefs), for appellants.

D. French Slaughter, III, Bruce M. Marshall, Charlottesville, Hugh T. Antrim, Richmond (Thomas S. Word, Jr., Thomas A. Cooper, Richmond, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, Charlottesville, Durette, Irvin, Lemons & Fenderson, Thompson & McMullan, Richmond, on brief), for appellees Robert Lee Hines, Jr., Individually, Twyla Willey Gunter, Individually and Sara Rigel.

Frank O. Brown, Jr., Richmond, for appellees Robert Lee Hines, Jr., Executor and Trustee, etc. and Twyla Willey Gunter, Executor and Trustee, etc.

No brief or argument for appellees Lee Baxter Hines, Eugene Douglas Gunter, Frances Lloyd Montgomery, Anne Lindsay Williamson Rodrigo and Anne Rigel Segar.

Present: All the Justices.


WHITING, Justice.

This will construction case involves a determination of the effect of changes made by codicils.

Anne Lindsay Gunter died on January 19, 1991, survived by her husband, Eugene Douglas Gunter. Mrs. Gunter's holographic will, dated September 13, 1985, and containing six holographic codicils, was probated in the Circuit Court of Henrico County on January 31, 1991.

On July 26, 1991, the executors...

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