Wadsworth v. . Wadsworth

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] The single question presented is, whether the title to the lands devised to the issue of Mrs. Murray vested in her son Charles James, the respondent, or whether it descended to the heirs of the testator, there being no residuary devisees.

The 4th section of the act "Of Wills and Testaments" provides, that "every devise of any interest in real property to a person who, at the time of the death of the testator, shall be an alien not authorized by statute to hold…