Phelps v. Seeley

This is an appeal from a decree entered by the circuit ■court of Cumberland County in a partition suit. The interests of the parties in the real estate in question depend upon a construction of the will of W. H. Seeley, who died in 1905.

W. H. Seeley was married three times. He was survived by his third wife, Leahbelle Seeley, and nine children. Four of the children were born of his first marriage and none of his second. On March 29, 1902, when he executed his will, four children, Inez, Daniel, Jacob and James had been born of his third marriage. A fifth child of the third marriage, Roy…