Sanderson v. Bigham
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Hudson, J., Florence, February, 1893. This was an action commenced on December 31,1892, for the partition of land devised to plaintiff and defendant by the will of their mother, who died October 11, 1890.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice McGowan.
Mrs. Mary Bigharn, of Florence County, died in 1870, leaving a will, of which her daughter, the plaintiff, and her son, the defendant, are the qualified executrix and executor. It would seem that the plaintiff and defendant were her only children, to whom she bequeathed and devised the whole of her estate. The second clause of her will reads as follows: “All my right, title, and interest in a portion *502or bract of land, it being the tract containing the old homestead of my husbaud, Leonard Smiley Bigham, sr., deceased, I give to my…
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