Poindexter v. . Blackburn
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a hill filed in Stokes Court of Equity at April Term, 1840, and at the coming in of the answers at October, 1840, the cause was, by consent, set for hearing upon the bill and answers, and transmitted to the Supreme Court. The facts and the questions submitted by the bill and answers will be found in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Ruffin, Chief Justice.
Gabriel Waggoner made his will in 1825 and died. By it he devised to his wife Mary the plantation on which he resided, for her life, and also bequeathed to her for life six slaves, by name, and the use of his stock hf every kind, and his household and kitchen furniture; and, after her death, he gave five of the said negroes by- name and their increase to Nancy Waggoner, one of his daughters, and the remaining negro called Hannah, and all the stock, household and kitchen furniture and all other property there found that is not named in this will” to the testator’s two…
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