Moore v. Webb

This is an action of ejectment between two sisters, for about fifty acres of land, each of them claiming title from their father, who devised all his estate to their mother, “to dispose of as she might think best whilst she survived him,” and declared, also, in his will, that whatever disposition she might make of it at her death “should be duly and strictly attended to and stand good in law.” The plaintiff claimed the land under a conveyance from her mother after the testator’s death.

The defendant relied on evidence conducing strongly to prove that, more than twenty years before the…