Brede v. First National Bank of Wailuku

Citations

• 23 Haw. 537
• 1916 Haw. LEXIS 47

Syllabus

<p>Wills — mortgage l>y remainderman — termination of mortgagor’s estate.</p> <p>B., by will, devised bis real estate to bis wife for life, and after ber death certain portions to bis son W. K. B.; tbe will provided that if any devisee should die before tbe testator’s wife died tbe share which otherwise would have fallen to such devisee should go to his heirs; W. K. B. mortgaged the property so devised to him, after which he died prior to the death of the widow of testator, leaving children surviving him who are admitted to be his heirs: Held, that whatever estate W. K. B. took under the will terminated with his death and that his surviving children, as heirs, took free from any lien of such mortgage.'</p>