Cough v. Eastham

JOHNSON, PRESIDENT :

Samuel Couch of Mason county made his last will and testament on May 15, 1879. The first clause of the will is as follows: “I give and devise unto my son Peter S. Couch my farm on which I reside in Mason county, West Virginia, containing about 950 acres; but it being my desire to devise the property as nearly equally as may be between my two children, Peter S. Couch and Sarah Frances Eastham, I direct my said son, Peter S. Couch, to pay his sister, Sarah F. Eastham, the sum of $4,000.00, and I hereby make the said sum of $4,000.00, a lien and charge upon the real estate…