Jolley v. . Humphries

Does the limitation, “To have and to hold the afore described real estate during the term of her natural life and at her death to go to Nellie G. Settlemyer,” which follows the description of the third devise in item two of the will of S. R. Humphries, also apply to the first and second devises? Our answer is, that it does not. This is the interpretation which the parties themselves placed upon the will for more than twenty years.

In the first place, the ordinary signification of the words “afore described real estate” is the next preceding, which in the instant case would mean the third tract…