Voelker v. Edgar

Citations

• 66 Pa. Super. 557
• 1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 315

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Construction—Life estate- — -Buie in Shelley’s Case not applicable.</p> <p>Where a testatrix gives her estate to her executrix in trust for her son “at age of twenty-one years” and if the son “should get married and have children at his death divided between his children” .and if the son “has no children living” then over to a sister and nephew of testatrix, and the son reaches the age of twenty-one years and marries and has a child and secures a full release from the remaindermen, he cannot make a fee simple title in real estate of the decedent, inasmuch as he takes a life estate only with a vested remainder in his child and other children that may be born to him thereafter.</p>