McGinnis v. Hood

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Perry

Affirming.

The one question involved in controversy upon this appeal is the one raised as to what is the proper construction of that part of the deed whereby the grantors, P. W. Bottom, and wife, conveyed the ninety-five and a fraction acre tract of land here involved to Dr. John Patterson and “Cora White and her bodily heirs.” Only that part or one-half portion of this tract of land which was by the Bottoms conveyed by the expression or phrase “to Cora White and her bodily heirs” is here involved.

A controversy having arisen between the appellants and…