Bell v. Barefield

(after stating the facts as above). The court, in ordering the sale of the lands for division among the joint owners, proceeded on the theory that the deed from Edward Barefield and wife to Dora Brown and Robert L. Barefield reserved a life estate in the grantors with vested remainder in the grantees. There is nothing in this conveyance, so far as appears, imposing any duty on the life tenant to preserve the property or insure it for the benefit of the remaindermen, and there is nothing in the conveyance made by Nancy Jane Barefield and her children, other than the complainant, to Dora Brown…