In re Hamrick's Estate

JAMES E. ALDERMAN, Circuit Judge.

Petitioners, the five children of P. L. Hamrick, deceased, ask the court to declare certain real estate to have been the homestead of their deceased father and that they, as his children, are entitled to vested remainders in said property upon termination of a life estate in their step-mother, Annis E. Hamrick.

The following factual situation is alleged in their petition — The property in question was acquired by their mother and father as an estate by the entirety and was used as the family home place until the death of their mother on August 24, 1965. After…