Read v. Payne
Read v. Payne
Opinion of the Court
“ The Court is of opinion, that the information, or additional testimony of Joseph Robinson, who was a witness to the will of Jesse Payne, the testator in the bill named, given at the time he proved the said will in the County Court of Goochland, without any notice thereof to the parties interested in the estate of the testator, in order to prove the desires of the testator, and to explain the written will exhibited in Court for proof only, ought not to have been admitted, or registered, with the probate of the said testament, or read in evidence in this cause, without the consent of the parties; and this Court, being of opinion that the appellant is, under the residuary devise in the said will, entitled, in right of his late wife Frances, who was widow and one of the residuary lega
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