Smith v. Carroll

James Gavvin died on May 28, 1895, leaving a will, by which he devised by item 2 a life estate in all his property to his widow, Sarah Gavvin, and by item 6 devised to his son Patrick Henry Gavvin the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 31, township 18, range 3, in Macon county, subject to the life estate of the widow and subject to a right of way sixteen feet wide for the use of the owner of premises devised in another item, and provided that if the devisee should die without issue then the property devised to him should be equally divided among the surviving children of…