Travers v. Reinhardt
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS' OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The facts :are. stated in the opinion.'
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
This suit was' originally brought for the partition or sale of *429certain real estate in the city of Washington devised by .the will (and codicils thereto) of Nicholas Travers who died in the year 1849, leaving, four sons and three daughters.
The only parts of that estate remaining in.dispute are certain lots in square 291 in Washington, and the questions to be determined depend upon the construction of that will and upon the evidence touching the alleged marriage of James Travers, a son of the testator, with Sophia V. Grayson.
By the first item of the will certain lots are devised to…
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