Kingman v. Harmon

Citations

• 131 Ill. 171
• 23 N.E. 430

Syllabus

<p>WiMi—what estate devised—whether a vested, or only a contingent interest. A party provided, by Ms last will, that all Ms real estate be reserved for Ms children (there being three), and “be equally divided among them when the youngest attains the age of twenty-one years, subject to” his wife’s dower, and that the proceeds of such property, until that time, be placed at the disposal of the executors, to be used for the support of the wife and the support and education of his children : Held, that the devise to the children was not of a vested estate or interest, but of a contingent interest, only, and that until the youngest child arrived at the age of twenty-one neither of such children had any title to the lands which their guardian could mortgage for them.</p>