Moore v. Moore

Judge Ckenshaw

delivered the opinion of the Court.

John Moore, deceased, a son of Peter Moore, Sr., deceased, by his last will and testament, devised to his daughter Martha, forty and a half acres of land on which he lived, but, in the event of his said daughter’s dying without issue, the said land together with some bequests of personal property and slaves, to be equally divided between his brothers and sisters, George, Peter, and Patsy Moore, and Jane McClanahan. Martha Moore was then an infant, and said George Moore became her statutory guardian.

Whilst said Martha was still under twenty-one…