Woody v. . Cates

The determination of the question of title presented by this appeal turns upon the construction of the following clause of the will of Josephus Younger, probated in 1902: “I give and devise to my daughter, Maria Carver, during her life and no longer, 300 acres of land (describing it). After the death of my daughter, Maria Carver, I devise the property in this paragraph named to ■ her children then living and to the issue of such of her children as may be dead, per stirpes.1'

It is admitted that Maria Carver had two children, J. G. Moore (by a former marriage) and Willie E. Carver. J. G. Moore…