Buckner's Trustee v. Buckner

Opinion of the Couet.by

Judge Hurt

— Reversing.

*303John C. Buckner was tbe owner of a lifé estate in a bouse and lot situated in Florence, Boone county.- Tbe property was devised to bim for life, and tbe remainder interest to bis children, wbo were six in number and all of them infants. Under tbe instrument which devised title to Buckner and bis children, the property was placed in tbe bands of a trustee. Tbe trustee and tbe statutory guardian of tbe remaindermen instituted this action against tbe owner of tbe life estate, which had been sold for debt, and others, wbo were claiming tax liens upon…