Field v. Lloyd

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Under the will of J. W. M. Field, who died in 1903, his daughter Jessie Deane Field was given a life estate in a portion of his estate, with remainder to her children, or if she should die without descendants, then to the testator’s surviving children and their descendants. In 1945 a purported trustee, in an ex parte proceeding in the circuit court, was authorized to and did execute a conveyance of the fee in the portion so devised, to the predecessor in title of Donald Lloyd and wife, who are the ap-pellees in the two appeals here before us. Jessie, alive but childless,…