Marshall v. Clause

Citations

• 230 Pa. 344
• 79 A. 511
• 1911 Pa. LEXIS 613

Syllabus

<p>WiZZs — Devise—Conditional devise — Fee simple — Life estate.</p> <p>A devise of land to testator’s son with the condition annexed, “But if he should have no direct heirs, then during his natural life and his present wife or widow to have the use of it during her widowhood, at her death or remarriage said property to go to my heirs at law” contemplates a definite failure of issue and indicates a plain intention that there should be a fee in the son only in case he left heirs of his body.</p>