Jessup v. . Nixon

The fourteenth item of the will contains this devise: “I also give to Cornelia Nixon, the widow of Thomas Nixon, the plantation whereon she now lives, containing about 275 acres, during her life or widowhood, but in case she marries or dies, the property to go to her surviving children.” Thomas Nixon died in June, 1886; Cornelia, in March, 1899; and Francis Nixon, Jr., father of the plaintiffs, in March, 1896. The plaintiffs contend that their father, a son of Thomas and Cornelia Nixon, acquired under the will of Francis Nixon, Sr., a one-sixth undivided interest in the devised premises, and…