Murray v. Kator

This case involves the construction of a deed, the first paragraph of which reads as follows:

“This indenture, made this eighth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three, between Richard Smitherman and Margaret Smitherman, his wife, of Smithfield, Oakland county, Michigan, parties of the first part, and Catherine

jointly

Smitherman and Margaret Smitherman, ‘heirs’ ^ of the same place parties of the second part.”

The grantees were two of the daughters of the grantors. Sixty acres of land in Oakland county were conveyed. A long form blank was used. There is no other…