American Yarn & Processing Co. v. Dewstoe

Adams, J".

It' was adjudged by the trial court that the interest or estate of each of the four children in the devised land was subject to be defeated and terminated as to each of them by his or her death without issue then living or born within ten lunar months thereafter. This adjudication is assailed by the plaintiff and Rose McDonald Dewstoe, widow and executrix of Martin E. Dewstoe, who contend that the death of the life tenant was fixed as the time when the devise over was to become effective, and that the devise to the lineal descendants is not a limitation upon the estates taken by…