Adams v. Adams

MONTGOMERY, Judge.

This action involves the rental operation of a farm under a will and the sale of timber by a life tenant. Bertha Thomas Adams, widow of the testator, has appealed. Benoni S. Adams and William C. Adams, nephews of the testator, as succeeding life tenants, and their children, as remainder-men, have cross-appealed.

On July 5, 1951, James H. Adams died. He devised his 400-acre farm to his wife, the appellant, for life or until she remarried. This estate was subject to a power in his nephews to operate the farm during the widow’s tenancy. They were directed to pay her its fair…