Case ID: ga_155/html/0118-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Beck, P. J. Russell, O. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hall v. Edwards.
    No. 3201.
    February 16, 1923.
    Equitable petition. Before Judge Munro. Talbot superior court. April 3, 1922.
    
      James B. Davis, for plaintiff in error.
    
      John A. Smith, contra.
   Beck, P. J.

The court below properly construed the provision in the will of the father of the plaintiff in error in this case; and under that construction the plaintiff in error did not have title to the property here involved. That being true, the court directed the only verdict that could have been properly made under the facts.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur, except

Russell, O. J.,

dissenting. Construing items 2 and 3 together, I am of the opinion that the first and most important intention of the testator was to give his daughter 100 acres, neither more nor less; and the verdict directed does not accomplish this result. It appears from the record that the testator owned adjoining land from which the contents of his home place could be supplemented so as to give plaintiff in error 100 acres as devised. The description of the land as contained in item 2 of the will can be followed by a surveyor so as to accomplish the intention of the testator as to the 100 acres of land.