Kolmer v. Miles

The question submitted for decision in this case is whether the estate devised by Stephen W. Miles to his children was a fee simple or was such an estate as would have been a fee tail at the common law, which section 6 of the Conveyance act converted into a life estate in the first devisees with remainders in fee to their lineal heirs. On the amended bill for partition filed in the circuit court of Monroe county by the appellee, Conrad Kolmer, who claimed an interest in the lands through one of the children, against the appellants, children and grandchildren of the testator, the chancellor…