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By DAPHNE HITCHIYSON

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In an order dated April, 1982. Circuit Court Judge Shore Robertson set aside a portion of Virginia Fletcher Wood's will and directed that half of her estate, valued at approximately $850,000, go to heirs at law rather than to heart research.

The estates of Virginia Fletcher and Robert Eugene Wood have been a battleground since the couple was swept from the bridge at Fletcher's Mill by flood waters on August 28, 1979. They left behind no children or other close relatives and two holographic wills, dated 1948.

Eugene Wood's will specified a few small bequests and left the balance of his $153,116 estate to be divided between the eanser (sic) and heart funds of Virginia.

Although Wood's statutory heirs—three nephews and a niece—argued that they were entitled to the estate on the grounds that the bequest should tail tor indefiniteness, Judge Robertson ruled that Eugene Wood's estate was to be divided between the Virginia Division of the American Cancer Society and the Virginia Affiliate of the American Heart Association.

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