Supreme Court of Virginia June 25, 1807 (Miller v. Beverly)

This was an appeal from a judgment of the District Court of Fredericksburg, affirming a judgment of the County Court of Caroline.

The case was this: Robert Gaines Beverly, husband of the appellee, being in his lifetime possessed of a large real estate, made a settlement on his wife of greater value than her dower in all his lands, and died leaving her his widow and several children, who were