Cannon v. Ballenger

OxnEr, Justice.

This appeal involves the construction of the following paragraph in the will of Sara Jane Kendrick:

“I give devise and bequeath unto my niece Emma Cannon all my personal property and one half of my Real Estate, she to have the South side of the plantation, and unto my brother Manning Austin Kendrick the other one-half of my real estate, the North side of said plantation, during his lifetime, and at his death, to his son, I. J. Kendrick, and his bodily heirs, should he die without any heirs, said real estate shall go back to Emma Cannon’s Estate.”

The real estate mentioned…