Love v. . Love
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeae by plaintiffs from McElroy, J., at chambers, Sylva, N. C., 24 May, 1919, from JacicsoN. This is an action for the recovery of land, for an injunction to the final hearing to prevent cutting and removing timber, and also for a receiver.' There was a temporary restraining order, which the court refused to continue to the hearing, and the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
The determination of this appeal depends upon the construction of item first of the will of John B. Love, who died in February, 1873, leaving him surviving his widow, 6 children, and a few grandchildren, the children of daughters who had died before the making of the will. By said item first of the will be devised to bis wife the land in controversy in this action: “To have and to bold to her during her natural life, and at her death to my youngest son, Calhoun Love, and his heirs lawfully begotten in fee simple forever, but in case my said son shall die without issue, the said lands…
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