Limehouse v. Limehouse

Brailsford, Justice:

The Will of Harriet Brown Limehouse, made shortly before her death in 1916, contained the following provision:

“I give and devise my farm in Stallsville, County Dorchester State aforesaid, unto my Son Just Doar Limehouse, absolutely and forever. If however he should die childless (without heirs) for his widow to have farm during her lifetime then to revert to and become part of my residuary estate.”

Five years after his mother’s death, Just Doar Lime-house adopted a son, Edgar, who alone survived his adoptive father’s death intestate in 1967. The beneficiaries of the…