Epley v. Epley
Missouri Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
PRITCHARD, Judge.
The issue is whether an October 19, 1957 quit-claim deed given by four children of a testator to testator’s grandson, to whom there was previously devised 100 acres of land in fee tail, was effective to convey the future interests in reversion of the four grantors upon death of the devisee without heirs of his body. The trial court held the quit-claim deed to be ineffective; that the heirs of the testator could not be determined until the death of the life tenant on April 22, 1976; that respondents (the surviving children of one of testator’s children, Chester C. Epley),…
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