McIntyre v. Dietrich

The circuit court of Adams county sustained the demurrer of the appellees to the bill filed against them in this case by the appellants, which alleged that Robert McIntyre devised a determinable fee in land in that county to his son James M. P. McIntyre and that such fee had been determined by conveyance of the devisee in violation of a condition of the will and a limitation over by way of executory devise to the lawful issue of the devisee surviving him had taken effect, and prayed for partition of the land. The appellants elected to abide by their bill and it was dismissed for want of…