Case ID: ky-op_4/html/0077-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Robertson :", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Susan Vick v. John F. Barclay.
    Descent and Distribution — Devise in Fee Simple.
    A devise in real and personal estate to, children in fee, is not made defeasible by the declaration “should either of my children die without children, the surviving children to inherit.” It is not a limitation of the title or a restraint on the jus disperendi.
    APPEAL FROM LOGAN CIRCUIT COURT.
    March 5, 1870.
   Opinion of the Court by

Judge Robertson :

The devise to the testator’s children of real and personal estate in fee is not made defeasible by tbe declaration “should either of my children die without children, the surviving children to inherit,” -but that super-addition would be most consistently interpreted as a mere testamentary recognition of the law of descent and distribution, and not as a limitation of the title or a restraint-on the jus disperendi.

Rhea, for appellant.

Wherefore, the judgment of -the circuit court limiting the estate to a defeasible fee is reversed, and the cause remanded.