Harper v. Vaughan

Citations

• 87 Va. 426
• 12 S.E. 785
• 1891 Va. LEXIS 87

Syllabus

<p>1. Appellate Jurisdiction—Interlocutory decrees.—Appeal lies from interlocutory decree adjudicating the principles of the case, but the final decree may be awaited and the appeal is in time.</p> <p>2. Wills—Construction—Charges on land—Case at bar.—Testator charged on land devised to one son a sum of money to another: held, debt so charged is paramount to any claim of the heirs and widow of devisee to the land, who must pay it proportionally.</p> <p>3. Idem:—How charge payable.—Amount payable by widow is the present worth of the annual interest on one-third of the debt (at compound interest), for the probable period of her life, ascertained from the tables of mortality. Wilson v. Davisson, 2 Bob., 384.</p>