Oliver v. Jones

This cause is submitted upon an agreed statement of facts, the controlling points of which are:

That Emanuel Preston was the owner of a perpetual leasehold (99 years, renewable forever) estate in lot 111, Lane Seminary Subdivision, Walnut Hills, this county, January 25, 1856, at which time his first wife, Sarah Preston, obtained a decree of divorce and alimony, in which the court decreed to her for the support of herself and their infant children five hundred dollars and a life interest in said leasehold estate, subject to the conditions thereof. That she took possession under said decree.

That…