Hall v. Jacobs
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Error to Jlnne-JlTumhl County Court. Ejectment on a joint demise to recover the following tracts of land, viz, The Garden Recovered, Denehworth and WestaPs Resurvey. The case was this: Richard Jacobs, son of Joseph, beIng seized in fee of the lands in dispute, on the 2d of Ja-nnary 1783, by his last will and testament devised the same tobe equally divided amongst his three children, Joseph, Dorsey and Rachel, and their respective heirs, ever.
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Error to Jlnne-JlTumhl County Court. Ejectment on a joint demise to recover the following tracts of land, viz, The Garden Recovered, Denehworth and WestaPs Resurvey. The case was this: Richard Jacobs, son of Joseph, beIng seized in fee of the lands in dispute, on the 2d of Ja-nnary 1783, by his last will and testament devised the same tobe equally divided amongst his three children, Joseph, Dorsey and Rachel, and their respective heirs, ever. On the 1st of March 1783, the testator died seized and without having revoked the said devise. Joseph and Rachel, the devisees, after the death of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
It appears from the case stated, on which the judgment of the court below was founded, that Bichara Jacobs, son of Joseph, in the year 1783; died seized in fee of the land for which this suit was brought, having first made his last will and testament, whereby he 'devised it *253in fee -to his three children, Joseph Jacobs, Dorsey Jacobs, and Rachel Jacobs, as tenanis in common; that after the deatli of the testator, sometime in the year 1800, Joseph and Rachel Jacobs, two of the devisees named in the will, died seized in fee of two thirds of said land, intestate and without issue, which two…
2Cited by3 opinions
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- Garner v. WoodCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1889