Mayhew's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Kephart,

The sole question for our consideration in this case is the construction of the word “issue.” It arises in the following manner: Lavinia M. Mayhew died seized of real estate in Philadelphia and elsewhere, which she devised as follows: “I give and bequeath to my said daughter Gertrude Estelle Mayhew all my personal property and the interest of all real estate belonging to me, as long as she lives, but if my said daughter Gertrude Estelle Mayhew should marry, then at her death the interest of my real estate goes to her issue.

“But in the event of my daughter’s…