Reynolds v. Jones

MERRILL, Justice.

This case was originally assigned to another member of the court and was reassigned to the writer on September 4, 1962.

This is an appeal from a final decree denying the relief sought by appellants in their bill of complaint, dissolving a temporary injunction and permitting the life tenant to continue to cut timber on the land “so long as it conforms to the practice established and followed by” the testator and deceased husband of the life tenant.

The testator died in 1958, leaving a will which bequeathed to his wife all the real estate he owned, “but for her life only, and she…