115 W. Va. 237 - Moore v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
December 2001
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“contemplates that, pending the' [will] contest and pending the determination of the rights of rival claimants, the administration of the estate is, by the appointment of a curator, to be placed in competent hands that will be impartial and even-handed as between the conflicting interests of the parties contesting the will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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