Roberts v. Roberts

This case involves the construction of a will to determine whether or not it devised a fee simple title in real estate to a son, or a life estate to the son with remainder to his named children. The trial court held it devised a fee simple estate. We reverse the decree of the trial court and hold that the will devised a life estate with remainder to the children, and direct a decree accordingly.

So far as this appeal is concerned, the action concerns the plaintiffs, who are the grandchildren of the testator, and the defendant Lennie Roberts, who* is a daughter-in-law of testator, but not the…