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73 Va. 657

Connolly v. Connolly

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided January 22, 1880

Supreme Court of Virginia · decided 1880-01-22

This was an application by Rosa Ann Connolly to the .. fit J n , circuit court of Fairfax county, to be permitted to file a to review the decree of said court, which had been affirmed upon appeal by the court of appeals, admitting to probate a paper propounded as the will of Edmund Connolly. That case is reported in 27 Gratt. 313, under the name of Cody v. Conly & als.

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Decided 1880-01-22

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Moncure, P.,

¶1dissented.

¶2The decree was as follows:

¶3This day came again the parties, by their counsel, and the court, having maturely considered the transcript of the record of the order aforesaid and the arguments of counsel,, is of opinion, for reasons stated in writing and filed with the-record, that the said circuit’court erred in refusing to grant to the appellant leave to file the bill of review tendered to the said court; therefore, it is decreed and ordered, that the said order be reversed and annulled, and that the appel*669lant recover against the appellee, Walker E. Millan, administrator of Edmund Connolly, deceased, her costs by her expended in the prosecution of her appeal here, to be levied of the goods and chattels of the said decedent, Edmund Connolly, in the hands of the said Walker E. Millan to be administered, and this cause is remanded to the said circuit court with directions to receive the said bill of review tendered by the appellant and permit the same to be filed and regularly proceeded with in order to final decree.

¶4Which is ordered to be certified to the said circuit court ■of Fairfax county.

¶5Decree reversed.

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