Gaines v. Carriker

The plaintiffs sued in ejectment to recover the possession of certain real estate lying in Linn county, and derived their title as an original source from the will of James Morrison, deceased. The will was executed in Kentucky in 1820, and among other clauses of a like nature the testator devised “to Joseph Beckett,” etc., “three thousand dollars’ worth of land, to be valued to him according to the valuation Contained in the aforesaid list.” It seems from the will that the testator was possessed of a large quantity of real estate, and that in devising the same he had made out a schedule or…