Merrow v. Merrow

The devise involved in these proceedings reads as follows:

“Fourteenth. To my wife, Rena McLauthlin Merrow, and my son, Parker McLauthlin Merrow, my estate at Center Ossipee, New Hampshire, known as ‘Long Look’ ... to be held by them . . . for the term of their joint lives and to be held by the survivor at the death of the other for the term of his or her life ... At the termination for any cause of the life tenancies in this property of my wife and my son, above provided for, I give said estate outright ... in equal shares to the issue of my son, if he shall have any then surviving him.” In…