M'Nair's administrator v. Hawkins

OPINION óf the Court, by

Ch. J. Rotie.

This case turns upon the construction of a clause in the will of John Thompson, madétlie 31st of July 1T58, and admitted to record the following year. The clause referred to is as follows :

“ I give, devise and bequeath to my daughter1'Elizabeth Thompson, my tract of eleven hundred acres in Albemarle county* called Meadow Creek-,' wdth slx; negro slaves annexed to the same, by name Rose, Lucy, Mary, Peter, Doll and Bartlet, and their future increase ; which said tract of land, with the appurtenances and slaves annexed, I devise, give and bequeath to the…