Watson v. Watson

This case comes into this court on appeal from the judgment of the common pleas court of Pickaway county. The plaintiff, Charles W. Watson, brought an action for partition, and in his petition he recites that item 1 of the will of Wellington B. White, deceased, provided for a devise of land in the following language: “Item 1. I hereby give and devise to my daughter, Samantha Ann Watson, of Springfield, Illinois, my farm in Jackson Township, Pickaway County, Ohio, containing 320 acres more or less and known as the old home farm, to have and to hold for and during her natural life, and at her…