Case ID: h-mch_4/html/0481-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SEPTEMBER TERM, 1720.
    Shanks’s Lessee, vs. Blackiston.
    Ejectment foi* Little Hackley, lying in St. Clement’s Manor in the county of Saint-Mary’s.
    
    The question submitted by the special verdict found In tliis case, turned upon the following devisé in the will of John Shanks, the grandfather of the lessor of the plaintiff, dated the Ifth June 1683, vie. “I give and bequeath unto my beloved son, John Shanks, the plantation I now live upon at St. Clement’s Manor, called the «‘Little Hackley, with 300 acres of land belonging to it, «‘after the decease of niv beloved wife Abigail, to him and “his heirs for ever. Item, it is my will, that in case my “sonshould die before my wife, or leave no heir surviv«‘ing him, then my plantation shall descend to my daughter Mary and her heirs; and in case she shall decease “without heirs, then to my daughter Elizabeth, and her «‘heirs; and in case she shall decease without heirs, then «‘to my grandson Charles Watts, and his heirs successively.”
    
      John Shanks, the son of the testator, by deed dated the 2d of March 1690, conveyed the land in dispute to the father of the defendant. The lessor of the plaintiff is the heir at law of the said John Shanks, the devisee¡,-
    Judgment upon the special verdict for the plaintiff.
    
      T, Bordley, (Attorney-General,' for the plaintiff.
    
      jliilany, for the defendant.