Shockley v. Storey

Grice, Justice.

It is the position of counsel for the defendant, that, under the conveyances from the other heirs at law of the elder Shockley, Homer A. obtained such title to the premises as, *791upon Ms death, without child or descendants of children, amounted to an unqualified fee, and the plaintiffs by their said deeds are estopped to claim adversely thereto. It is on the other hand the insistence of counsel for the plaintiffs, that neither of the deeds executed by the widow and children of James M. Shockley to Homer A. Shockley conveyed any title or interest in the property into Homer A.…