Ritter's Estate

Citations

• 53 Pa. Super. 337
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 177

Syllabus

<p>Will — Devise—Rule in Shelley’s case — “Bodily heirs.”</p> <p>Testatrix devised a house and lot to her daughter for life, “and after her death to be divided in equal shares among her bodily heirs. Should, however, none of the bodily heirs of my daughter arrive at the age of twenty-one years, and leave no lawful bodily heirs, then the aforesaid house shall fall back to my other children and their heirs forever.” Held, that the daughter took an estate tail, which under the operation of the statute became an estate in fee simple.</p>