Jones v. Gulf Refining Co.

Gordon, Jr., J.,

This is an amicable action in ejectment, and the case is before us upon a motion for judgment on the pleadings. The question to be decided involves the interpretation of a clause of the will of Benjamin Levy, who died May 24, 1882. Benjamin G. Jones, the plaintiff, is an heir of Emeline Levy Jones, an executory devisee under the will, and the Gulf Refining Company is the grantee of the property devised by the clause under consideration, its grantor being Miriam Levy, who conveyed the property to the defendant in fee under an asserted claim that she received such a title to it…