Ryder v. Flanders

Plaintiffs in error brought ejectment in the circuit court for the county of Van Burén for two parcels of land in that county, amounting, together, to about ninety-six acres, claiming in part as heirs and devisees of one Samuel Ryder, in part by descent, and in part by purchase from all the other heirs, as well as by a deed from the widow of said Samuel Ryder, to whom this land, with all the other lands of said Samuel, were devised during the term of her natural life, should she so long remain his widow and unmarried, and no longer; “and then, in either case” (that is, in the event of her…