Richardson v. Richardson

This appeal presents the question of whether a life tenant has the right to a judicially ordered sale of two tracts of land, with reinvestment of the proceeds, where the owner of the vested remainder is a minor.

Plaintiff, Robert R. Richardson is the father of the two defendants, Robert V. Richardson, and Juanna Lee Richardson. The father filed this action in circuit court seeking sale of lands in which his deceased mother had left him a life estate with the remainder interests devised to his two children as tenants in common, in equal shares and to unborn contingent remaindermen as stated in…