Smith v. Chapman

On an appeal from a decree of the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District, pronounced by the late Judge of that Court.

This case turned upon the construction of the will and codicils thereto annexed of William Carr the elder, which were made in the year 1790. So far as the present question is influenced by them, they may be resolved into the following parts :

1. A devise to Betsey Tebbs of sundry tracts of land particularly described, together with a negro woman Hannah and her children, during the life of the devisee; then to her child or children, if any living at her death, to be…