Myrick v. Heard

The plaintiff in ejectment, having introduced her evidence, rested, and the defendant moved the court to direct a verdict in his favor, and the question depends on the construction of the following clause in the will of Mary Ann Murray, that is to say:

“I give and bequeath,” etc., “to hold in trust for my niece Abigail Nelson, the daughter of my sister Elizabeth Nelson, and her heirs, and if she, the said Abigail, should die without issue living at her death, then, in default of such issue, to my sister Elizabeth Nelson, the mother of the said Abigail, for life, remainder in fee-simple to my…