GRIFFIN SMITH, Chief Justice.
A plantation known as the McGehee Place was devised to six heirs in equal shares. One of the beneficiaries was McKenzie Toney, "[whose] interest is to be entailed on his three children", naming them. The question is whether the father took a fee, as the Chancellor held, or only a life estate. The parent had acquired the remaining five-sixths.
Appellee cites some of our cases holding that the law favors early vesting of estates...
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