Wise v. Leonhardt.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by Sally Wise and others against D. P. Leonhardt and others, heard bv Judge E. W. Timberlahe, at December (Special) Term, 1900, of Superior Court of Lincoln County. From a judgment for the defendants, the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
The construction of a clause in the will of Joseph Leonhardt is the matter before the Court. The item is as follows: “I give and devise to my son Lawrence’s children the half of the tract of land where he now lives, to be divided equally among them after the death of my son Lawrence, to have and to- hold to them and their heirs in fee-simple forever.”
At the death of the testator, his Son Lawrence had three children, and afterwards — more than ten months after the death of the testator and in the lifetime of Lawrence — eight other children were born to him. The defendant’s contention is that,…
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