Curling's Administrators v. Curling's Heirs

James Curling — who died in 1833 — by his will, pub^she<I ^11 1815, devised his estate to his wife during her life, and then made the following devise: — “And at the “ decease of my said wife, it is my will and desire that “my negro boy Harry shall cease from slavery and be “emancipated and set free, and that the remaining part “of my estate shall be left for the use, privilege and “benefit of a public seminary — that the said property “ shall n°t sofej I>ut rented and hired out for the purit p0se aforesaid.”. It appears that, at the time oí his death, the testator, wh° was childless, owned a…