Laurance v. Mitchell

BOULDIN, Justice.

The appeal is from a decree overruling demurrers to a bill in equity.

Broadly speaking, the purpose of the bill is to clear up and define the title of the owner of an alleged reversionary estate in lands in fee subject to a life estate still pending. The substance of the bill may be summarized as follows:

The lands were owned by Mollie Daniels Williams. Upon her death intestate on October 14, 1935, the title passed to complainant, Arlina Mitchell, a niece, and sole heir at law of the decedent, subject to a statutory life estate in the surviving husband, John Williams, who still…