BUTLER v. HAYES

Record No. 961857.

487 S.E.2d 229 (1997)

Samuel M. BUTLER, et al. v. Carrie C. HAYES, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 6, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Powell Lawson Duggan (Walker, Jones, Lawrence, Duggan & Savage, on briefs), Warrenton, for appellants.

Patricia A. Woodward, Warrenton, for appellees Carrie C. Hayes and Verrell McPherson Wood.

No brief or oral argument on behalf of appellees Barbara J. Merrit, et al.

Present: All the Justices.


COMPTON, Justice.

In this chancery suit, we consider whether the trial court erred in denying cotenants an allowance for permanent improvements made to land they had acquired as the result of a forged deed.

The facts are undisputed. The controversy involves a two-acre parcel of land in Fauquier County.

In June 1989, one David Brown, Sr., inherited a one-eighth interest in the subject property upon the death...

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