Peck v. Green

LIVINGSTON, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court in Equity, Jefferson County, Alabama, in a cause commenced by a bill seeking the division of certain property which is the subject matter of the will of Reuben A. Lewis, Sr., who died in Jefferson County in May, 1935. The cause was submitted on stipulated facts.

In order to make the division prayed for, it was necessary to construe certain portions of the will. The pertinent portions are as follows:

“Item 4: All the rest and residue of the property of which I die seized and possessed, I give, devise and bequeath to…