Ford v. Smith

The complainants, Mary Coats Ford and others, filed a hill against the defendants, Lem Smith, I. Levy, and others, setting up that one John Smith formerly owned certain lands involved in the subject-matter of the suit, and that he made a last will and testament in which he devised his lands to his wife for life, and, after her death, to seven of his children for their natural lives, and to the children of the several children named in the will in fee, reserving and making an annuity of one hundred dollars a year in favor of one of the children, who, by the terms of the will, was to take no…