Kentucky Real Estate Board v. Smith

Opinion of the Court by Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The primary and all-sufficient decisive question Mr our determination, as submitted by this appeal, is, Whether or not a deed in the chain of title of appellee and plaintiff below, Milton W. Smith, to a tract of land in Oldham county, Ky., containing 70 acres, conveyed to the joint vendees therein a fee-simple title, or a lesser estate? A secondary question'of adverse possession is also raised, but which becomes relevant only if the deed referred to conveyed a less estate than the absolute fee-simple title, and, since we interpret it as conveying…