Larwill's Executors v. Ewing

Citations

• 73 Ohio St. (N.S.) 177

Syllabus

<p>Prevention of the lapsing of devises and bequests by section 5971, Revised Statutes — Interpretation of statutes — Law of wills— Descent of property.</p> <p>The effect of section 5971, Revised Statutes, is to prevent the lapsing of devises and bequests clearly made to a child or other relative of a testator when such primary devisee dies before the testator, but leaving issue which survives him, unless to give it that effect would be subversive of a dispositive intention clearly expressed in the will.</p>