Harmon v. Thompson

This controversy centers upon a deed executed in 1938 to Dave Harmon and his wife Gertie. Dave died in 1945 and Gertie died in 1951. This suit to recover the forty acres in question was then brought by the appellant, who is Dave Harmon’s son by an earlier marriage and is his sole heir. The appellant contends that the 1938 deed vested the fee in Dave Harmon, subject to a joint life estate in Dave and Gertie. The appellees are Gertie’s three sisters, her only heirs. In the court below they asked that the deed be reformed. The chancellor denied reformation, but he construed the deed as having…