EPLEY v. EPLEY

No. WD 30155.

585 S.W.2d 308 (1979)

Ralph L. EPLEY, Donald W. Epley, Hazel Rose McCloud, Nelda Edstron, and Irene Littleton, Respondents, v. Eleanor EPLEY, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

July 31, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Swiss, Kansas City (Mann, Pink & Swiss, Kansas City, of counsel), for appellant.

James E. Thompson, Jr., Harrisonville (Crouch, Crouch, Spangler & Douglas, Harrisonville, of counsel), for respondents.

Before SOMERVILLE, P. J., and PRITCHARD and MANFORD, JJ.


PRITCHARD, Judge.

The issue is whether an October 19, 1957 quit-claim deed given by four children of a testator to testator's grandson, to whom there was previously devised 100 acres of land in fee tail, was effective to convey the future interests in reversion of the four grantors upon death of the devisee without heirs of his body. The trial court held the quit-claim deed to be ineffective; that the heirs of the testator could not be determined until the death of...

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