OTIS, District Judge.
A brief preliminary statement will help to an understanding of the issues involved in this case.
It appears that on September 2, 1859, one David L. Jones, being then a resident and citizen of the state of Kentucky, executed an instrument in writing wherein he conveyed a life estate in certain Kentucky lands to his son, James H. Jones, then also a resident and citizen of Kentucky, with remainder to the children and the descendants of James...
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