Eversmeyer v. McCollum

Hart, J.,

(after stating the facts). The decision of the chancellor is based upon the theory that the deed of T. E. Billingsley and wife to the 220 acres of land in Hempstead County, Arkansas, conveyed a life estate to Mary Pool with the remainder to Dr. W. H. B. Pool, who was found to be her son.

In the first place it is sought to reverse the decree upon the theory that the Billingsley deed conveyed the fee to Mary Pool, under the rule in Shelley’s Case, as declared in Hardage v. Stroope, 58 Ark. 303, and Ryan v. Ryan, 138 Ark. 362.

Mary Pool and Philander Pool, her husband, conveyed the land…