McAfee v. Lehman

Citations

• 253 Pa. 319
• 98 A. 594
• 1916 Pa. LEXIS 831

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Life estates — Remainders—Children—Words of purchase —Rule in Shelley’s Case.</p> <p>Where a testator devised certain real estate “to my nephew...... for and during the term of his natural life. At his death the same is devised to the child or children in fee,” the nephew took but a life estate in the property; the rule in Shelley’s Case did not apply, and the children took as purchasers, not by devolution from their father.</p>