Demill v. Reid

The first inquiry that it seems necessary to make is, what is the character of the interest which by the will of John Willett was devised to the children of Henry J. Willett?

*22It was earnestly contended by Mr. Mackubin, first, that it was a vested remainder, and he states the case thus: “Here the estate is given in trust for Belt’s life; then to the children of Henry, unless Belt, then childless, leave a descendant, &c. The remainder vested in the children of Henry, living at testator’s death, subject to be divested pro tanto, to let in any children that might afterwards be born to him, and, in…