Lewis v. Bryce

Citations

• 187 Pa. 362
• 41 A. 275
• 1898 Pa. LEXIS 818

Syllabus

<p>Will — Devise—Fee simple estate — Life estate — Separate use trust — Trust and trustees.</p> <p>Testatrix devised land subject to her husband’s life estate to her three daughters, naming them “ during their lives, to be equally divided between them under the condition that they shall hold the same exclusively and free from all control of their husbands or any one of them; said property to descend and be inherited by said daughters’children and their heirs forever.” Held, (1) that the daughters took an estate for life only ; (2) that even if the will should be construed so as to give them more than a life estate, a separate use trust was created which would prevent them from alienating their shares during the coverture.</p>