Howell v. . Knight
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION — Ejectment—tried before Avery, J., at Fall 'Term, 1887, of Edgecoiibe Superior Court. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiffs; defendant appealed. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSmiti-i, C. J.
The controversy is in respect to the proper construction of a clause in the will of James Knight, made in July, 1844, and proved after his death in November, 1847. The facts are stated in a case agreed and submitted under section 567 of The Code. The plaintiffs are the children and, as such, the heirs at law of James W. Knight, the devisee named in the fourth item of the will, the meaning and legal effect of which is in dispute, who died intestate in 1875. The defendant, his widow, claims an estate in fee by virtue of a sale of the interest in the land devised, under execution against her…
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