Chelton v. Henderson
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Ai>peal from Somerset county court. Isaac Dixon died in July 1788, leaving a last will duly executed, to pass real estate, on the- 9th of May, 1788, in which, after giving to his wife a life estate in one-third of the plantation on which he resided, devised as follows: “2nd.
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Ai>peal from Somerset county court. Isaac Dixon died in July 1788, leaving a last will duly executed, to pass real estate, on the- 9th of May, 1788, in which, after giving to his wife a life estate in one-third of the plantation on which he resided, devised as follows: “2nd. I give and bequeath to my son Isaac Dixon, the use of the said plantation whereon I now live, (except the' third part already disposed of,) to him, the said Isaac, during his natural life, and if it should please God that the said Isaac should have issue born of his body, lawfully begotten, then such issue,, after the…
1Opinion of the CourtDorsey, J.
A statement of but few facts being necessary to explain the the nature and origin of the controversy in this case, a brief enumeration of them, so far as it may be necessary for that purpose, would perhaps greatly facilitate the comprehension of the opinion, we may express upon the subject. Isaac Dixon the testator, being seized in fee of the lands in question by his will dated the 9th of May 1788, and admitted to probate on the 15th day of July of the same year, devised the lands in question to his son Isaac Dixon (who shall be denominated as “Isaac Dixon the second”) “during his natural…
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