Lindsay v. Williams

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Tilpord

Affirming.

The question for decision in this Specific Performance suit is whether the appellee can convey to the appellant the unencumbered fee simple title to a house and lot in Winchester which was conveyed to the appellee on August 30, 1917, by the executrix of the will of J. H. Evans, appellee’s grandfather. The conveyance by the executrix to the appellee, whose maiden name was Nancy C. Quisenberry, was made pursuant to the fourteenth clause of the will which reads as follows:

“I direct that Thirty-five Hundred or Four Thousand Dollars out of the interest…