Stewart v. Neely

Citations

• 139 Pa. 309
• 20 A. 1002
• 1891 Pa. LEXIS 993

Syllabus

<p>1. By the conveyance of the most remote of several contingent remainders to a life-tenant- by deed, the life-estate is not thereby merged with the remainder and enlarged into a fee simple, to the destruction of the intermediate remainders.</p> <p>2. Moreover, a contingent remainder can be conveyed only by a devise: a deed purporting to convey it, unless executed and delivered after the contingency happens, will be operative only as an estoppel of the remainder-man.</p>