Johnson v. Moore

HUGHES, Justice.

In this suit we are asked, primarily, to determine the character of estate received in certain lands by a father under the will of his son.

Stated a little less generally the question is whether the father who was devised an estate in remainder in these lands by the will of his son, subject to a life estate in the son’s wife, received a vested estate which he could transmit by will when he did not survive the life tenant. The answer, of course, lies in a proper construction of the son’s will.

In' the event the father did receive a vested estate' in remainder under the will of…