Nelson's Heirs v. Lee

In the year 1835 JohnR. Nelson, having title to several valuable tracts of land in the county of Mercer, (now Boyle,) departed this life under the age of twenty-one years, unmarried and without children, or father, mother, brother, or sister, or their descendants, but leaving paternal and maternal kindred, among whom, by the 7th and subsequent sections of the statute of descents of 1796, (Stat. Law, 563,) the inheritance descended in equal moieties — that is, one moiety to the patei’nal and one to the maternal kindred, in the course pointed out by the 8th section and other following sections.…