· 11/10/1890

Estate of Giffin

Citations

138 Pa. 327
22 A. 91
1890 Pa. LEXIS 1281

Syllabus

<p>By a devise of land to one “during her natural lifetime,.and at her decease the same to go to her children and their descendants,” the devisee takes but a life-estate, the word children being used as a word of purchase and not of limitation: Keim’s App., 125 Pa. 487.*</p>

Judges: Clark, Green, Lum, McCol, Mitchell, Paxson, Pun, Williams

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