Gottwald v. Warlick

SMITH, Chief Justice.

On January 27, 1896, J. L. Norwood and wife, Rachel, conveyed to their two daughters, Julia and Roy, a certain tract of 440 acres of land in Gonzales County, subject to a life estate in said land retained by the grantors, and subject to the limitation that if either of the two grantees shall die without issue, or without disposing of her part of said property, “then said real estate shall descend to such of our other children as may be alive in equal quantities.” The said Roy Norwood married and bore issue, and, of course, took the whole of her undivided part of the land.…