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The Virginia Supreme Court issued an order on Wednesday, March 7, denying an appeal in the case of Paleologos versus Neilson, better known in Rappahannock County as the Holmes will case.
Flint Hill orchardist Earl E. Holmes, a retired colonel in the U.S. Marines, died of liver cancer in November, 1979. A month before his death, he executed a will, leaving his $1.8 million estate to his doctor, Naval Commander Peter Neilson.
The 76-year-old retired Marine officer had no wife or children. Ruth Holmes, his sister and closest relative, died three months after her brother and in her will, directed her executrix and chief beneficiary, Betty Paleologos, her caretaker for over 15 years, to challenge her brother’s bequest.
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