Case Name: Anonymous
Court: North Carolina Superior Court
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1802-01
Citations: 2 Hayw. 161
Docket Number: 
Parties: Anonymous.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 161–162

Head Matter:
Anonymous.
¶'«ESTATOR had devised a Negro to his wife and also lands •A for hfe ; and the executors of the testator sued for the NeEl'°"

Opinion:
Johnston, Judge.
The words and also continue the clause, and the words for life refer to all that precedes. She had an interest for life in the Negro as well as in the lands, and there re-muned a reversion which vested in the executors ; and although the next of kin may be entitled to it, }-et the executors must distribute it, and must recover in the first instance, in order to that distribution.
Judgment according^.