Bentley v. Consolidation Coal Company

Opinion of the Court by

Turner, Commissioner

Affirming.

William-Ramey was an extensive landholder in Pike county, -and executed his will in 1864. He had nine children, to -each of whom he -devised certain tracts of land for life. To some of them he devised as many as three separate tracts, and to some of them two, and to others only one.

Except in one instance he devised the remainder interest in the several tracts either to the “heirs,” the “legal heirs,” or the “heirs of the body” of the particular devisee for life. 'To his son, Moses, he devised three separate tracts -of land, and one of them…