Lucas v. Shumpert

The opinion'of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Fishburne.

Some time during the year 1888, John F. Shumpert departed this life leaving of force his last will and testament, Paragraph three of which reads as follows:

“I give and bequeath to my loving wife, Mary Shumpert, during her natural life all of my real estate containing four hundred and forty acres (more or less) adjoining lands of Dempsey Jones on the West; George Shumpert on the Northeast; John Kyzer on the East; Jacob Shumpert on the South and others, and is the place where I now reside and is known as part of the Huffman tract of…