Sellers v. Powers

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• construing will to convey life estate in testator’s two children and upon the death of one of the children, testator’s grandchildren take life estate in undivided one-half interest of property together with the testator’s surviving child until that child dies
• construing will to convey life estate in testator's two children and upon the death of one of the children, testator's grandchildren take life estate in undivided one-half interest of property together with the testator's surviving child until that child dies
• because testator's unborn grandchild born after death of testator might outlive his joint tenants by more than twenty-one years and might have a child of his own, the unborn great-grandchild's interest would not vest within the permissible period

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).