Yerbey v. Chandler

Grice, Justice.

An ejectment suit was filed by Miss Fannie L. Yerbey and others against Mrs. C. T. Chandler. The land involved is seventeen acres. At the conclusion of the plaintiffs’ evidence the court awarded a nonsuit, to which ruling they excepted. The third item of the will of Burrell Yerbey, probated June 3, 1862, was in evidence, as follows: “I give and devise to my daughter-in-law Sarah H. Yerbey, widow, and her four children, Burrell H., Eliza E. L., Rebecca A., and Mary 0. Yerbey and her grandson William Ware,.being my great-grandson, all constituting one legatee, the following land,…