Tankersley v. Davis

In this case appeal is from final decree in a suit the purpose of which was to procure judicial interpretation and construction of the terms of.a deed.

On March 14; 1924, J. C. Bishop, then a widower, owned in fee simple the lands involved and on that date he made a deed of conveyance of a part of said land to Mrs. Bonnie Tankersley. The habendum clause of that deed was as follows:

“To PIave and to PIold with all the rights, privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging to the said party of the second part, for and during the term of her natural life and thereafter to any child or children…