Rendle v. Wiemeyer

This case involves 38.80 acres of land, 25 parties litigant, and rights which arose in 1909 adjudicated to some extent under a partial judgment entered May 3, 1963.

The legal issues include an alleged violation of the statute1 prohibiting the suspension of the absolute power of alienation beyond 2 lives in being; the legal efficacy of partition proceedings had in 1917; the limitation of issues by the pretrial summary; interests in realty as affected by descent per capita or per stirpes; the alleged creation of life estates in common with a so-called “joint” right of possession or life estates…