Rowland v. Home Building & Loan Ass'n

On the hearing, the sufficiency of the title offered was properly made to depend upon whether deed from Mary A. Laughing-house to T. L. Laughinghouse for the locus in quo conveys a fee simple or only a life estate.

The habendum is “to him, the said party of the second part, for and during the term of his natural life,” and at his death “said lands shall descend to his heirs at law or to such collateral relations as may he entitled to same upon failure of issue.” We agree with the trial court that by virtue of the operation of the rule in Shelley’s case, which obtains in this jurisdiction, not…