Ellingrod v. Trombla

This is a suit to obtain specific performance of a contract for the sale of real estate. The trial court denied the prayer of plaintiff’s petition and the plaintiff has appealed.

The sole question involved is whether a devise of the real estate contained in the will of Mildred Ludlow, the mother of the plaintiff, vested a fee simple title or a life estate with a remainder in her descendants. The devise provided: “To my daughter, Polly Anna Ludlow, and her descendants, I will the quarter section of about 162 acres of farm land, SE% 4-2-11 in Webster County, Nebraska.” There is no other language…