Rennolds v. Branch

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that use of a term in one bequest created a condition precedent and its omission in the following bequest indicated the testator had “in mind a different object to be accomplished”
• time until which alternative takers had to survive was specified
• gift after the death of X to the testator’s “own child or children then living, and the issue of such as may have died leaving issue” vests at the death of a child before X’s death in that child’s issue
• class of alternate takers comprised of “issue”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Clark v. Strother
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-11-10· cited 14×
• Disney v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1950-01-16· cited 10×
• Maiorano v. Virginia Trust Co.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-12-01· cited 8×
• White v. National Bank & Trust Co.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-01-17· cited 4×
• Aldridge v. First & Merchants National Bank
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1950-09-06· cited 2×
• Elliott v. Griffin
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-09-01

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jameson v. Jameson's Adm'x
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1889-04-18· cited 15×
• James v. Peoples National Bank
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1941-11-24· cited 14×
• Rady v. Staiars
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1933-03-16· cited 13×
• American National Bank & Trust Co. v. Herndon
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1943-01-18· cited 4×