Stamey v. Fortner

KNIGHT, Justice.

Bill by Mrs. Tenney Stamey and others, exhibited in the circuit court of DeKaib county, against Wallace Fortner and others. In the bill as originally filed, the complainants sought to have three certain deeds of conveyance, executed by W. H. Fortner, canceled for failure of the grantees to pay certain annual rents, constituting conditions subsequent, and for an accounting.

It appears from the averments of the bill that W. H. Fortner in his lifetime executed three separate conveyances, one to Wallace Fortner, one to Archibald Fortner, and one to J. W. Fortner. These grantees…