Harvey v. Bolton

L. CHARLES WRIGHT, Retired Appellate Judge.

Ethel M. Lane held fee simple title to a parcel of property in Mobile, Alabama. In September 1989 she conveyed that property to her brother, Reginal C. Bolton, and to her sister, Katherine Bolton Harvey, as joint tenants with right of survivorship, retaining a life estate in herself.

In February 1993, the three siblings conveyed the property by vendor’s lien deed to Robert and Lori Sheffield, conveying their collective title and reserving a vendor’s lien to secure the remaining indebtedness, evidenced by a promissory note payable to all three. It is…