Deboe v. Lowen

This case grows out of the will of Francis Lowen, admitted to record in 1820. And the principal question is, whether under the devises presently to be stated, the devisees took estates for life, or fees defeasible on contingency, or whether by the terms of the devises, or by force of the statute converting estates tail into estates in fee simple, they took the absolute fee in the land devised. It appears from the will, that the testator had had fifteen children, who are all named therein; and after devising to his wife his home plantation and other property for life, to be disposed of at her…