Craven v. Pinion

This is an appeal from a judgment relating to the probate of the will of John R. House.

The will was made on December 23, 1926, and testator died the next day. The will devised approximately one-half of testator’s real estate to his wife and the remainder to his executor in trust, with instructions to pay the net income from this portion to Nellie House Montgomery Craven, his only child. Upon her death, leaving issue, the *840real estate devised in trust was to pass to her “lineal heirs at law absolutely in fee simple.” If she failed to leave issue, such real estate was to go to testator’s heirs…