Widener v. Beggs

Citations

• 118 Pa. 374
• 12 A. 311
• 1888 Pa. LEXIS 400

Syllabus

<p>The will of a testator having disposed of certain portions of his estate, real and personal, provided: “The balance of my estate shall be divided between my children, share and share alike, except what may be coming to my daughters Lizzie and Lulu. Their moneys to be invested by my executors in bonds, mortgages or other good securities, they receiving the interest on same, and at their death to revert to their children after they have arrived at the age of twenty-one years:” Held, That the latter clause did not limit the shares of said daughters in the real estate coming to them under the first clause, and that the estate given to them therein was a fee simple.</p>