Supreme Court of Virginia March 15, 1841 (Newton v. Poole)

I. The counsel for the appellants contended, upon the construction of the testator Robert Poole’s will, 1. that his wife was enti-titled to a third of all the estate real and personal left by the testator, clear of his debts, and that all the debts were charged on the residuum devised and bequeathed to the son ; *8352.