Chipps v. Hall
West Virginia Supreme Court
GREEN, Judwe, furnishes the following statement of the case: This was a chancery suit instituted in the circuit court of Monongalia.
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GREEN, Judwe, furnishes the following statement of the case: This was a chancery suit instituted in the circuit court of Monongalia. The hill was filed at July rules, 1881, and is as follows: “ lo the Hon. A. B. Fleming, Judge of the Circuit Court Monon-galia county: “Rachel Ohipps, Irwin Scott, George Scott, Jacob Scott, Alexander Scott, Malinda Thatcher, James Huffman, Al-phias Scott, Sarah B. Stevens, Louisa Scott, Jacob Scott, Alexander Ash,' George 0. Huffman, Margaret J. Morrison, Anmi Morrison, Louis S. Huffman, Catharine Thornton, Silas Thornton, Lucy M. Wright and Webster Wright, the…
1Opinion of the Court
GREEN, Judge :
The rpiestion involved in this case is: Does the rule in Shelley’s Case, apply to the devise by David Scott by the codicil to Ins will of lot No. 1, (one hundred and sixty-five acres of land) to his son Jefferson, after the death of the testator’s wife, to whom by his will the testator had devised it during her natural life? The devise to his son, Jefferson, by the codicil is, “during his natural life and at his death then to descend to his heirs.” If the rule in Shelley’s Case applies, then the will and codicil devises the lot to the testator’s *510widow for her life, remainder in…
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