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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The courtroom for last Thursday’s hearing on the disposition of the Wood estate looked like a bar association meeting as a gaggle of lawyers in somber shades of brown, charcoal gray and navy blue balanced legal pads on their knees, filling the first three rows of benches.
At issue in Thursday's hearing was the division of more than SI.5 million, excluding real estate, left by Virginia Fletcher Wood of Sperryville. She and her husband, Robert Eugene Wood, died on August 28, 1979 when flood waters swept them off the bridge at Fletcher s Mill.
In a will dated December 1, 1948, Mrs. Wood divided the bulk of her estate equally between the Virginia Division of the American Cancer Society and “the Slate of Virginia organization or foundation engaged in research concerning ailments of the heart and heart trouble.” Heirs have challenged the bequest to the heart association, maintaining that the identity of the beneficiary can’t be determined, that it could be the Virginia affiliate of the American Heart Association, the Medical College of Virginia, the University of Virginia Hospital or another Virginia Hospital or another Virginia organization doing heart research. They argue that half of the estate should be divided between Mrs. Wood’s heirs at law.
Mr. and Mrs. Wood had no children and Mrs. Wood
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