Gadsberry v. Swayze

The suit involves the title to about three hundred acres of land, and depends upon the construction of the will of Sarah Caldwell, deceased, as to whether the complainants, who were the descendants of the brothers and sisters, and therefore heirs, of the decedent, take the land by inheritance, or whether the appellees have superior title thereto by purchase from Mrs. Lillian Wilkinson {nee Perry), illegitimate daughter of Lutie M. Perry, niece of the testatrix, Sarah Caldwell, and to whom the land here in question was devised by the will of Sarah Caldwell, deceased.

If the clause in the will,…