Spence v. Clarke

On September 29, 1921, Miss J. Ready Spence, then the owner of the lands involved heroin, gave a deed of trust on said lands to secure a debt of five thousand dollars to T. A. Turner, -with William C. McLean, Jr., as trustee. Before the secured debt aforesaid or any part thereof was paid, Miss J. Ready Spence died testate, and her will, duly probated, devised unto her brother J. H. Spence all her “worldlv possessions,” and provided further that the said J. II. Spence, who was by said will appointed executor, should as such executor “look after” her two nieces, Mary Ready and Margaret Spence,…