Jones v. Napier

Lumpkin, Justice.

The land involved in the present case was once owned by W. H. D. Inman, who died December 18th, 1858, leaving a will, executed on the preceding day, which, after devising the land to his wife, contained in the same item a provision that: “ At my wife’s death, I will all my property to my children, to be equally divided between them; and at their death, the property is then to go to their children. In the event that my wife should marry, the property is then to be equally divided between her and my children, she drawing a child’s part.” Properly construed, this will conveyed…