Bailey v. Eagle Mountain Telephone Co.

This is a suit for a specific performance in which the appellant filed his bill to require the respondent Telephone Company to specifically perform its contract of purchase of a tract of real estate which it had bargained to purchase from said Bailey. The Chancellor sustained the demurrer of the defendant and dismissed the hill, 'hence this appeal.

The principal question is whether or not the following language, without more, created a fee simple determinable subject to a possibility of reverter in the heirs of the grantor. The following language which appears in the chain of title of the said…