Haver v. Herder

The facts in this case are not in dispute. Then only questions involved are of testamentary and statutory interpretation.

Peter T. Haver died in 1909 a resident of New Jersey. He left a will obviously drawn by himself or some scrivener with only a scanty knowledge of the law relative to wills. Under it he gives his homestead farm to his son George for life, and provides further that if at George's death he "should leave any legal heirs" the farm is to go to them; but if George should die, "without leaving any legal heirs," then the farm is to be sold by testator's executors and the proceeds…