Court Opinion

ID: 7386591
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 00:21:21.210882+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:21:33.113257
License: Public Domain

Haywood, J.
Mr. Caswell was trustee for the widow and children, to make the purchase; but having done so, the trust was at an end, and the property vested in them as joint-tenants. The joint-tenancy was severed as to the widow, by her intermarriage with Williams; as to the children, by the act of 1784, and each held a third in severalty. The gift by the defendant to the plaintiff's testator transferred no property, because her third belonged to Williams upon the intermarriage; and at the time of the gift to his representatives.
The plaintiff therefore is entitled to recover but one third.
Judgment accordingly.