Allison's Devisees v. Allison's Heirs

Judge Ewing

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Alpheus and Hendrey W. Allison filed their bill, in the Louisville Chancery Court, alleging that their father Hendrey, in the summer of 1824 or 5, made and published his last will and testament, by which he devised all his estate to their mother during her life, and also devised his real estate after her death, it being a tract of land of about four hundred and nine acres upon which he lived, to them and their brother James, and directed the residue of his estate to the divided equally among all his children, vesting the interest of their sister…