Middleton v. Ball

Opinion of the Court by

William Rogers Clay, Commissioner

Affirming.

By deed dated July 5, 1887, and recorded March 7, 1888, George Stewart, for the recited consideration of $250.00 cash, sold and conveyed to his two sons, Wilson Stewart and William Stewart, a tract of land in Harlan county consisting of about 550 acres, the deed providing that “George Stewart is to have the use and benefit and possession of the foregoing boundary of land during his natural life, and at his death the land is to be Wilson and William Stewarts’.” Prior thereto, George Stewart had sold all the mineral underlying…