HAMPTON ROADS 7TH-DAY ADVEN. CH. v. STEVENS

Record No. 070401.

657 S.E.2d 80 (2008)

HAMPTON ROADS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH v. Ora STEVENS, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

February 29, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas B. Kelly (Corrynn J. Peters, Bowman Green Hampton & Kelly, on briefs), Chesapeake, for appellant.

Charles E. Haden (Deborah S. Roe, Tonya Henderson-Stith, McDermott, Roe & Walter, on brief), Hampton, for appellee Ora Stevens.

No brief filed for appellee Matthew Watson.

Present: All the Justices.


OPINION BY Chief Justice LEROY R. HASSELL, SR.

In this appeal, we consider whether a will was subscribed by two witnesses as required by Code § 64.1-49.

The procedural history of this case and the relevant facts are simple and are not in dispute. Cora Lee Watson executed a will on March 12, 1996. After she died, the Hampton Roads Seventh-Day Adventist Church, a beneficiary identified in the will, requested that the clerk of the Circuit Court of the City...

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