Statler v. Watson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing a life tenant’s power to lease not only her present interest in the land she occupies but also a future interest she owns in the same land
• describing a tenancy in common as “characterized by the essential unity of possession or right of possession”
• remainderman does not have right to possession of real estate during existence of life tenancy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).