MacKie v. MacKie

This is an action to try and determine the title to land, and to remove a cloud from the title of the plaintiff to an undivided one-fourth interest in a certain tract of land; the defendants claiming under deeds which the plaintiff alleges are null and void.

The facts were stipulated below, and may be briefly stated as follows:

1. On 16 July, 1894, John Mackie, Sr., "in consideration of love and affection and one dollar paid to him by John Mackie, Jr.," executed a deed to his son, John Mackie, Jr., "for life and then to his children and their heirs and assigns," conveying a certain tract of…