Lee v. Waltjen

The will of Prudence A. Patterson, who died in 1883, devised certain real estate in the City of Baltimore to her nieces, Ruth A. Payne and Emma Mordecai, and her nephew, Frank Brown, subsequently Governor of Maryland, as tenants in common for life, and provided that “at the death of any one of said life tenants, the share of the one so dying is to go to his or her legitimate children and in the event of such life tenant dying without leaving such child or children, then such share is to go to the child or children of the other life tenants per stirpes and not per- capita.” The property thus…