Ringgold v. Carvel

This suit was brought in the Circuit Court for Queen Anne’s County by Mary R. Ringgold, widow, to construe the will of Thomas R. Carville, deceased, for the purpose of determining the owners of a tract of land known as the Chew Farm on Kent Island.

The testator died in May, 1883. He had one son, Thomas W. Carville, and one daughter, Florence Carville Ringgold. The daughter, who predeceased her father, had one child, Rowland Carville Ringgold, the husband of complainant.

The will was made on March 24, 1883. It devises the farm to the testator’s widow, Julia A. Carville, for life, then to his…