Hammond v. Martin

Citations

• 100 Kan. 285
• 164 P. 171
• 1917 Kan. LEXIS 311

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Will — Life Interest to Wife- — -Remainder to Children — Construction of Will. Where a will devises a life interest to the testator’s wife, with a remainder in equal shares to their five children, a provision that, if any of the children should die before the inheritance passed to them, the issue, if any, of such deceased child should take his share, even if construed to relate to the situation arising from the death of a child after that of the testator and before that of the mother, does not prevent the spouse of a deceased child, who died after the father and before the mother, from inheriting the share of such child.</p>