Watson v. Blackwood
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Panola County. Hon. B. F. Simmons, Chancellor. The facts of the above stated cause are substantially as follows: Elisha M. Watson died in 1852, after having made a last will, leaving considerable real and personal property.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Panola County. Hon. B. F. Simmons, Chancellor. The facts of the above stated cause are substantially as follows: Elisha M. Watson died in 1852, after having made a last will, leaving considerable real and personal property. By the second clause of his will (see page 8 of the transcript), said testator “ loaned ” to his wife, Mary Watson, “ all his estate, both real and personal,” except a slave Darned William, for and during her natural life or widowhood, with power to sell his lands if she desired to do so, provided the proceeds were considered a part of his…
1Opinion of the Court
Simrall, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court. •
The single question litigated in this case is, whether the heir and distributee of Jesse Watson is entitled to share with the children of the testator, in the money raised by a sale of the land.
So much of the will as is necessary to be considered, in disposing of the subject, are extracted in “Acec verla ” or substantially stated.
By the 2d item of the will, the testator gave to his widow, a *20life estate in the “ whole of his property, including both real and personal (except a slave William), determinable however upon her marriage, coupled with…
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