Church v. Baer

Citations

• 236 Pa. 605
• 84 A. 1099
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 807

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Construction — Legal heirs — Issue of the body — Estate in fee simple.</p> <p>Where a testator devises land to his wife for life, and after her death to his daughter, and further provides that if his daughter shall “not outlive her mother, and leave no legal heirs,” then the land was to belong to his son, the daughter after the death of the mother takes an absolute estate in fee simple in the land. In such a ease the testator used the words “legal heirs” in the sense of “issue of the body,” and they refer to the death of the daughter without issue during the life of the wife.</p>