Deck v. Deck

Grice, Justice.

The two cases can be disposed of in one opinion. The respective parties will be referred to as they are designated in the trial court.

Four of the plaintiffs together with the defendant are the five children who survived Alice A. Deck. Another child survived her, but died subsequently, and the remaining plaintiff is the only child of the last-named child.

A recital in a deed that said property was sold and conveyed “unto the said Alice A. Deck for and during her natural life, with remainder over at her decease to the heirs of her body,” conveyed a life-estate to Alice A. Deck and…