Kentland Coal & Coke Co. v. Blankenship

STANLEY, Commissioner.

Title to a relatively small portion of a large mineral tract owned by the appellant, Kentland Coal & Coke Company, depends upon the construction to be given a deed executed to its remote vendor on May 14, 1888. The instrument is a printed form with the blanks filled in with ink which has become a faded green, but legible enough in its more material parts. The question is whether the deed conveyed to the grantee named a fee simple title or a life estate with remainder to her children or descendants. The circuit court construed the instrument as conveying only a life…