Clark v. . Clark

Where real estate is devised to “nearest heirs at law” of a person leaving brothers and sisters of whole blood and half blood, do such brothers and sisters take equally, or do the brothers and sisters of the whole blood take the entire interest to the exclusion of the half blood?

Under the fifth item of the will of Joseph G-. Williams it was provided that, if Cleveland Williams “should die without heirs,” all the real estate bequeathed to him “shall go back to my beloved wife or her nearest heirs at law.” Amelia G-. Williams, wife of testator, died, leaving a half brother, two half sisters,…