Swallow v. Swallow

The Chancellor.

Nicholas Swallow by his will devised to his two sons, William and Enoch, in fee, in equal shares, all his lands, tenements, hereditaments and real estate, with a specified exception, subject to certain charges. He also ordered that if either of them should die without leaving lawful issue, the widow of the decedent should, so long as she remain such widow, receive one-third of the rents of the real estate devised to the decedent; and he also directed that after her decease, that real estate should be equally divided among all his (the testator’s) children then living. Enoch…