Nye v. Lovitt
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Norfolk, rendered October 10, 1893. This was an action of ejectment instituted in the Corporation Court of the city of Norfolk by Mary C. Lovitt and Hattie C. Lovitt against David B. Nye, the plaintiff in error, to recover a lot in Brambleton Ward, in the city of Norfolk.
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Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Norfolk, rendered October 10, 1893. This was an action of ejectment instituted in the Corporation Court of the city of Norfolk by Mary C. Lovitt and Hattie C. Lovitt against David B. Nye, the plaintiff in error, to recover a lot in Brambleton Ward, in the city of Norfolk. Pending the action Mary C. Lovitt died intestate, and the action was revived in the names of Mary D. Lovitt and Hattie C. Lovitt (her mother and sister), her heirs at law.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The first question to be determined in this case is the proper construction of the deed upon which the defendants in error base their right to recover the land in controversy,' and of which the following is a copy:
“ Whereas I, George Bramble, of the county of Norfolk, in the State of Yirginia, having resided in the family of Wilson H. C. and Jane C. Lovitt for some years, and the said *712Jane O. Lovitt being my relative, and desiring specially to provide for her and her children, it is my intention herein to give to the said Jane C. Lovitt, wife of the said Wilson H. O. Lovitt, and to the heirs…
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