Moore v. Harper

Smyder, Judge :

Henry Harper of Pocahontas county made his last will dated February 25, 1856, by which he disposed of all his real *363and personal property.' He was then the owner of valuable improved lands for a considerable distance along the bottom or valley of Knapp’s creek, and also of a large quantity of unimproved mountain land of little value adjoining his improved land and extending along the side of it and for some distance north and beyond his creek land. He devised all his creek or improved land to his sons by dividing it into sections by lines across the bottom. His son-in-law, A. W.…