Elam v. Alexander

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Settle

Affirming.

*40, This appeal brings to us for review a judgment of the Carter Circuit Court which quieted the title asserted by the appellees, Andy Alexander and others, to a forty-five-acre tract of land lying on Four Mile creek in Carter county, subject to the life estate óf their father, Jack Alexander, therein, and enjoined the latter from selling the .land as his own. The action was brought in equity by the four appellees as the children and only heirs at law of Mary E. Alexander, deceased, against Jack Alexander, her husband, to obtain the relief…