Burlingham v. Vandevender

Dent, Judge:

Lillie R. Burlingham and Morris O. Brooks instituted a suit in chancery in the circuit court of Roane County to enforce the payment of a certain balance of purchase money against a tract of land purchased of them by the defendant, M. L. Vandevender, and obtained a decree for the sale of the same, from which the defendant appeals. The facts are as follows: The defendant purchased the land, and they sold it, in fee. On an examination of their title, it is found that they only had a life estate, and the fee was contingently invested in their children, or, in absence of their…