Roth v. Cohn

Citations

• 236 Pa. 534
• 84 A. 964
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 792

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Construction — Estate in fee simple — Rule in Shelley’s Case.</p> <p>Where a testator devises all of his real estate to his five children “for and during the term of their natural lives respectively, and on the decease of any of them leaving issue then I give and devise the share of such child So dying (supposing that he or she had an equal share in fee of my real estate aforesaid) to such issue in fee simple,” each of the five children takes an estate in fee simple in his or her share.</p>