Jones v. Chandler

This case depends upon the construction to be given to the following clause in the will of Michael P, *589Jones: “7. To my son,-Algernon R. Jones, his wife, and his heirs, seven-thirtieths (7-30) of all my estate.” Does this clause create a fee absolute in Jones and his wife by entirety ? If so, the judgment must be reversed; but if it creates, as is earnestly contended by the counsel of appellee, a fee simple absolute in Jones, and only a life estate in his wife, then the judgment must be affirmed.

By 1 G. & H. 259, sec. 7, “all conveyances and devises of lands, or of any interest therein, made…