McClelland v. Bank of Clarksdale

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a testator’s gift of a life estate with the remainder to a named person creates a vested remainder at the testator’s death notwithstanding the life tenant’s power of defeasance
• recognizing that where the wife received a life estate in property upon her husband’s death, with the remainder interest held by named persons, the vested remainder interests were inherited by the remaindermen’s devisees where the remaindermen predeceased the life tenant
• “[A] gift of a life estate with remainder to a named person creates a vested remainder on the death of the testator.”
• \[A] gift of a life estate with remainder to a named person creates a vested remainder on the death of the testator.\
• “[A] gift of a life estate with remainder to a named person creates a vested remainder on the death of the testator.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).