Freeman's Estate

Citations

• 220 Pa. 343
• 69 A. 816
• 1908 Pa. LEXIS 776

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Gift to wife — Life estate — Personal estate — Intention.</p> <p>Where a husband gives, devises and bequeaths all his real and personal estate to his wife “to take and use same, and the net income thereof during all the term of her natural life, without giving security as life tenant thereof,” without limitation over, or intervention of trustee, the wife takes a life estate only in the personalty. If an absolute estate had been intended, the words “without giving security as life tenant thereof,” would be meaningless.</p>