Nottingham v. McKelvey

A will declared: “I give and bequeath to my nephew, Willie H. Stubbs, the two-thirds interest in all the land that was deeded to me by my father on the 23rd day of June, 1873, to have and to hold the same in fee simple. . . I give and bequeath to my nephew, Alpheus B. Stubbs, the remaining one-third interest in the land deeded to me by my father on the 23rd day of June, 1873.” By a codicil, executed on the same day the will was executed, it was provided: “I will and desire that if my two nephews, Willie H. Stubbs and Alpheus B. Stubbs, should die without heirs of their body, then that all my…