Case Name: Robert A. Keas v. Mary Holland, John H. Watson, William L. Watson, Grover C. Watson, Jesse R. Watson, Earl Watson, and Emma Beebe, Heirs at Law of Jesse R. Watson, Deceased
Court: Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1934-03-22
Citations: 162 Va. 71
Docket Number: 
Parties: Robert A. Keas v. Mary Holland, John H. Watson, William L. Watson, Grover C. Watson, Jesse R. Watson, Earl Watson, and Emma Beebe, Heirs at Law of Jesse R. Watson, Deceased.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Reports
Volume: 162
Pages: 71–72

Head Matter:
Richmond
Robert A. Keas v. Mary Holland, John H. Watson, William L. Watson, Grover C. Watson, Jesse R. Watson, Earl Watson, and Emma Beebe, Heirs at Law of Jesse R. Watson, Deceased.
March 22, 1934.
Present, All the Justices.
The opinion states the case.
Mapp & Mapp and Herbert Barnes, for the plaintiff in error.
George L. Doughty and Gunter & Gunter, for the defendants in error.

Opinion:
Hudgins, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The only question presented in this case is whether under the will of William T. Watson his son, Jesse R. Watson, was devised a fee simple or a life estate in certain lands. This will was construed in an opinion pub lished January term, 1934, in Powell v. Holland et al., 161 Va. 851, 172 S. E. 293. It was there held that under his father's will Jesse R. Watson took only a life estate in the lands described, with remainder in his surviving children. The trial court in this case so held.
We, therefore, affirm its judgment.
Affirmed.