Sturgis v. Work

Eobert Work, late of Allen county, died testate on the 3d day of July, 1886. By his last will and testament, to which, after it was first executed, there were *135added two codicils, he disposed of all his real iind personal .estate. Oné of the subjects of controversy arises out of the eighth clause of the will, by the terms of which the testator devised to his two daughters, Mary E. and Eliza J. Shoaff, an eighty-acre tract of land in De Kalb county, which is described as the “ west half of the southwest quarter” of a certain section, township and range.

The testator never owned the tract…