Brock v. Dorman

This is an action to try and determine title to real estate in Clinton County. All parties claimed under the will of James Brock, who died in 1915. The case was tried as a jury waived law case, but no findings of fact or declarations of law were asked or made. The court adjudged plaintiff to be the owner in fee simple of the land and defendants have appealed from this judgment.

The will of James Brock devised the land in question to his son Samuel Brock, "to have and to hold, during his natural life and after his death to go to his heirs." He made similar devises of other land to another son…