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The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Important will case. (search)
Important will case. --At the recent term of the Circuit Court of Roanoke county, Va., a will case of considerable importance was decided. The Salem Register says: This was an important and highly interesting suit, in which the will of Chileon O. White, deceased, was contested by the Rev. Andrew McDowell and others. Mr. McDowell is from the county of Hanover and married a sister of C. O. White. The amount of property involved is between forty and fifty thousand dollars. The counsel in favor of the will were Messrs. Edmundson and Blair, Watts and Allen, J. B. I. Logan and Colonel Winfield, of Bedford. Those for the contestants, C. G. Griswold, of Richmond, Col. Jno. T. Anderson, of Botetourt, and F. J. Ribble, of Roanoke. After able arguments on both sides, the jury borough in a verdict establishing the will.
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Conflagration in Hickman--twenty-seven houses burned. (search)
Supreme Court, Saturday, April 13 --Judge Allen and others presiding.--Petition of Alex. Nott and others for a supersedeas to judgment of Circuit Court of Richmond, on March 2d, 1861, in favor of Stephen Putney and Wm. K. Watts, having been heard and to sidered, it is adjudged that the judgment mentioned therein is plainly right. Writ dented. Jones' ex'or vs. Chas. F. Osborne and others, appeal from judgment of Circuit Court of Richmond. Partly heard and continued.
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
$25 reward. --Runaway, on the 29th of March, a woman named Nancy, whom I purchased of H. Stern, of this city. She is of medium size, rather spare made, of a ginger bread color, has a diffident look when spoken to, is twenty-three years old, has a blister scar on her neck. She was sold last Christmas at the sale of Wm. Anderson, dec'd. nine miles above the city. She may now be in that neighborhood, or near Slash Cottage, as she has a mother living at Mr. Wm.Winn's, near that place, in Hanover county. She was hired to Mr. Samuel Allen, of this city, last year, and has a husband hired to Mr. Ballard, at the Exchange Hotel, by the name of Dolphins. I will pay the above reward if delivered to me in Richmond. R. B. Woodward. ap 16--1w*