Blackwell v. Scouten

Citations

• 199 Pa. 446
• 49 A. 261
• 1901 Pa. LEXIS 628

Syllabus

<p>Will—Devise—Lapse—Decease of devisee in lifetime of testator—Act of April 8, 1833, P. L. 250.</p> <p>Where a testator devises land to his son subject to the payment of a certain sum to his wife and heirs, and if the son does not desire to take the land and pay said amount then to a second son, and the first son dies in his father’s lifetime leaving a son, the devise does not lapse, but under the Act of April 8, 1833, P. L. 250, sec. 12, vests in the son of the first beneficiary.</p>