Steele v. Robinson

This is an effort by the two surviving bodily heirs of Sallie Haden to regain two 160-acre tracts that have been out of the Haden family’s possession for about twenty-five years. In 1895 the property was conveyed to the plaintiffs’ ancestor, Sallie Haden, and to her heirs by J. T. Haden. Sallie Haden, after having obtained deeds from her own children, sold the land to the Bank of Crittenden County in 1926. The appellees, remote grantees of the Bank, rely upon the title conveyed by Sallie Haden in 1926. The main question in the case is whether Sallie Haden had a life estate with (a) a vested…