Welsh v. Elliott

*206The opinion of the court was delivéred by

Tilghman, C. J.

This case depends on the will of William Elliott, deceased, who devised the land in dispute to his son Robert, and his heirs, after the death of the testator’s wife, to whom he had given an estate for life. Then comes the claims on which the question arises. “ In case my son Robert depart this life before he is of age, or without lawful issue, I order and direct that my son, William Elliott, and his heirs, may have the plantation that is by this will devised to his brother Robert, William first paying, or otherwise satisfying, the…