Ewing v. Barnes

This was a bill in chancery, brought by Edwin A. Ewing, one of the devisees named in the will of John Rucker, deceased, against the executors, heirs and other devisees of the testator, praying that the will be construed as vesting in the complainant an absolute estate in fee simple in and to the lands thereby devised to him, and enjoining the defendants from setting up any claims or pretences of title thereto. The bill, on demurrer, was held to be without equity, and a decree was entered dismissing it at the complainant’s costs. To reverse that decree the complainant has appealed to this…