Hunt v. . Satterwhite
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Action to recover land tried at Pall Term, 1880, of Granville Superior Court, before Eure, J. The facts were agreed upon, and judgment rendered for the plaintiffs, from which the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The controversy in this action requires in its solution the construction of the following clause in the will of Jesse J. Kelly: I wish my old tract of land on the east side of Glebe road to be equally divided by a line running east and west; that portion on the south side of said line, I give in trust to John W. Kelly for the benefit of my daughter, Martha E. Satterwhite, and her children ; that part of my old tract lying on the north side of said line, I give to my daughter, Sue A. Kelly.
The will was made on July 7th, 1865, and the testator died the next year, leaving him surviving the said…
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