Posey v. Webb

HAWKINS, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

Francis Malcolm Posey, Jr., and Eugene Bramlett Posey have appealed from a decree of the chancery court of Lafayette County holding in a partition action that Charles Sherman Posey, a lawfully adopted son of their natural parents, was a devisee under the Last Will and Testament of their late natural grandfather E.S. Bramlett, Jr., and therefore a tenant in common to land devised by Dr. Bramlett to their mother for life, with remainder to the “heirs of her body”.

Finding that the term “heirs of her body” excluded Charles Sherman Posey, we reverse and…