James v. Frantz

This controversy involves the validity of two decrees which reformed a deed, and the right of the plaintiffs to attack them at this time. One of the decrees was entered in 1906 and the other in 1920. The trial court held that both decrees were void, and the defendants who relied upon them have appealed to this court. A freehold is involved.

In 1902, John S. Cochran and Sarah E. Cochran, his wife, conveyed land in Saline County to their minor daughter, Verlie O. Cochran “and the heirs of her body.” By statute this conveyance created a life estate in Verlie with a remainder in fee to her bodily…