Ward v. . Riddick
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a petition for the partition of slaves, transmitted from the Court of Equity of Bertie. The only question, in this case, arises on the following clause of the will of William Ward : “ 5th.
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This was a petition for the partition of slaves, transmitted from the Court of Equity of Bertie. The only question, in this case, arises on the following clause of the will of William Ward : “ 5th. My will and desire is, that my negroes shall be divided between my wife Martha, and my children, in the following manner : I desire, and my will is, that the negroes, Mary, Jo, Amanda, Oscar and Turner, whom I have given to my son-in-law, Thomas W. Riddick, be deducted from his portion of an equal division of my negroes, and after that deduction, then I desire my negroes to be equally divided…
1Opinion of the CourtBattle, J.
The only question presented by the pleadings, arises upon the construction of the 5th clause of the will of the testator, "William Ward, which is in the following words : “ My will and desire is, that my negroes shall be divided between my wife Martha, and all my children, in the following manner : I desire, and my will is, that the negroes, Mary, Jo, Amanda, Oscar, and Turner, whom I have given to my son-in-law, Thomas W. Eiddick, be deducted from his portion of an equal division of my negroes, and after that deduction, then I desire my negroes to be equally divided between my wife Martha,…
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