Savage v. Savage

An action in ejectment was tried before a Referee, resulting in a judgment for the defendant.

The plaintiffs’ evidence tended to prove that Robert *306B. Savage sold a stock of cattle belonging to the estate of his deceased wife, Sarah A. Savage, and in part payment he got the lots in litigation, in 1904. Prior to his death in 1914, he conveyed the lots, to the defendant.

The theory of the plaintiffs is that under the will of the said Sarah, only a life estate in the cattle passed to her husband, and' that these plaintiffs as remaindermen could impress the same limited estate upon the realty…