Whitehead v. Fulton

Opinion of the Court by

William; Rogers Clay, Commissioner

Granting the appeal and reversing.

Lloyd Shawler, a resident of Nelson county, died in the year 1900, leaving a will by which he devised his home farm, containing 138 acres, to his three children, Mary A. Whitehead, Ignatius Shawler and Josephine Shawler, in equal parts. The will further provided that -should either Ignatius Shawler or Josephine Shawler die without issue, the share of such child was to pass to Mary A. Whitehead, on condition that she lived with and took care of such child so long as such child lived, otherwise to pass to…