Schlater v. Lee
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Lowndes county. HoN. Albert Y. Woodward, 'Chancellor. Suit by Randle Blewett Schlater, administrator Com Testamento Annexo, of Thomas B. Blewett, Sr., and others against Blewett Lee and others. From a decree sustaining demurrers' to- the hill, complainants appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
HolbeN, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court. '
Thomas Gr. Blewett, Sr., died in Lowndes county in 1871, leaving a will in which certain real estate in the city of Columbus and Lowndes county was devised.
The controversy here arises out of the construction of items 1 and 5 of the will, which we here set out: .
“Item 1. I give, devise, and bequeath to my son,, Thomas Blewett (he sometimes writes his name Thos. Gr. Blewett, Jr.) the west half of the southwest quarter of Sec. thirty-one in township seventeen, range eighteen in Lowndes county, Mississippi, also one eighty, number not recollected…
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