Lattimer v. Stratford

GOODWYN, Justice (dissenting).

It is my view that the deed of May 11, 1898, from S. Cornelia Graham to her daughter, Eugenia Stratford, conveyed a life estate to said Eugenia Stratford with a vested remainder in her children. Therefore, I respectfully dissent from the majority holding “that the language of the conveyance from Mrs. Graham to her daughter, Eugenia, imports a contingent stirpital disposition of the property to the grantee’s children after grantee’s death”. [255 Ala. 201, 50 So. 423].

Leaving out the description and the acknowledgment, the deed here involved is as follows:

“State of…