Gibson v. McBurney

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Bok,

This is an action' to quiet title.

James A. Gibson died on March 13, 1939, leaving a son, Harlan, and several children of a deceased son. He also left three tracts of farm land, of 99, 74, and 42 acres. The 42 acres were unimproved; the 74 had a house and cottages; the 99 had the homestead and a smaller house, with its curtilage of half an acre, which is the thing in dispute and the subject of Paragraph Fourth of the decedent’s will..

Four paragraphs of the will bear on the problem before us:

“Second. I give and bequeath to my son Harlan L. Gibson all my personal…