Wetherill's Estate

Citations

• 248 Pa. 355
• 93 A. 1078
• 1915 Pa. LEXIS 578

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Construction—Buie in Shelley’s Case — Words of purchase.</p> <p>Where testator devised a life interest in certain real estate to his pister, with remainder to a certain named nephew for life, with the provision that if snch nephew should die before the death of the first taker the property should go “to my oldest surviving nephew of the family name of Wetherill for and during the time of his natural life with remainder to hia oldest son and his heirs in fee,” and the nephew named died before the first taker, the court properly held that the oldest surviving nephew did not take a fee.</p>