Blackwell v. Blackwell

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle —

Affirming.

This appeal involves a construction of the will of Thomas Blackwell, deceased, who was survived by Ms ■wife and two sons, all devisees under the will. The question especially presented for decision is, whether *265the son, Clarence Blackwell, takes the fee, or a life estate merely, in certain real estate devised him by the father’s will?

The will is an instrument of many crudities and was written by the testator, who was an uneducated man. Many of its clauses are obscure; this is particularly true of such parts of the will as dispose of the real…