Atkins v. Burden

MARTIN, Judge.

Appellants contend that the interest held by the heirs of testator during the life estate of Worth Burden was a contingent interest in that it was a mere possibility of a reverter or a reversionary right subject to a condition precedent which would not and did not vest until Worth Burden died leaving no descendants. Thus, they say that even if Clifford Burden could have conveyed his mere expectancy, such expectancy never *664vested in him and was extinguished upon his death prior to the date of the life tenant, so that his deed to the Tayloes conveyed nothing. By the fourth item of…