Leonard v. Leister

Citations

• 233 Pa. 475
• 82 A. 753
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 856

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Real estate — Fee simple title — Rule in Shelley’s case.</p> <p>Where a testatrix provides in her will “I further give and devise to my youngest son, and to his heirs,” a certain piece of real estate “to hold to him .... and to his heirs after him forever. I order that he has no power or right to sell or convey the aforesaid messuage or tenement of land away, as he has only a life estate in said messuage of land, as I will and order the aforesaid messuage of land to his heirs at his decease,” the son takes a fee simple title in the land on testatrix’s death under the rule in Shelley’s case.</p>