Travers v. Wallace

In eighteen hundred and forty-three Hooper Rawleigh executed a last will and testamént which was admitted to probate in eighteen hundred and forty-six. By the Jifth item of the will the following provision was made: “ I give and devise unto my daughter Sarah Hooper and her mother Eliza, to my daughter two-thirds and her mother one-third during her widowhood or their natural life and then to the heirs of my daughter Sarah Hooper lawfully begotten of her body, and for want of such issue living at the time of my said daughter’s death then to go to William H. H. and Susannah Rawleigh her brother…