Clagett v. Bowie

This is a special case stated for the construction of a will and codicil executed by Camila W. Mullikin, a resident of Prince George’s County, who died in the year 1906. The provisions with which the case is concerned are contained in the second and fifth clauses of the will and in the first and third clauses of the codicil, and are as follows:

“I give and devise to Corrilla Mullikin Bowie, daughter of said John M. Bowie” (a nephew of the testatrix), “two hundred acres of land, with the dwellings and other improvements, of the lands conveyed to me by William B. Claggett and wife, the said…