Gordon v. . Lowther

The testator "lends" to his daughter Martha (now Mrs. Lowther) certain lands described in his statement, and adds: "Should my said daughter have no child or children to live to be twenty-one years old, my will and desire is that my grandson John Gordon, son of George B. Gordon, shall have it after her death; if she should (195) have child or children to arrive at the above age, my desire is that they shall have it after her death."

This makes the defendant Martha Lowther a tenant for life, with a contingent remainder in fee to such child or children as she may have, who live to the age of…