Johnson v. Branning Manufacturing Co.

Clare:, C. J.

Tbis is an action to recover damages for trespass on tbe “White” tract of land, which the plaintiffs claim title to under the will of Sallie E. Ward, described as “lying on the White Oak road, and adjoining the lands of Patterson Ruffin, A. S. Rascoe, and others, and containing 191 acres.”

The defendant admits that Sallie E. Ward owned the “White” land, but contends that it did not at her death include the whole 191 acres, because she had conveyed to W. A. Ward 50 acres thereof, and in her devise of the “White land” to .the plaintiffs she had reserved the 50 acres, because the…