Case ID: ohio-law-abs_5/html/0349-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ALLEN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 408
    No. 20306
    Lyman H. Albright, et al. v. Arvilla Albright, et al
    Error to the Court of Appeals of Seneca County.
    230. CHILDREN — Where a testator devised land to his son Isaac Albright for liie, remainder to his children if any living and if no children living to the legal representatives of the Albright family, Isaac having died! without children, a child adopted fifteen years after testator’s death does not take under the will.
   ALLEN, J.

A testator devised certain land to his son Isaac Albright in a will which contained the following provision: “The land above devised, to my son Isaac Albright he is to have the use of during his natural life, and at his death to vest in fee simple in his children if he shall have any living. If he shall leave no children living at his death then said lands shall vest in his legal representatives of the Albright family.” Isaac Albright died without children, having- adopted a child, Jesse Albright, fifteen years after the death of the testator. In an action for partition and quieting of title held that the adopted child is not a legal representative of the Albright family and does not take under the will.

Judgment reversed in part.

Day, Robinson and Matthias, JJ., concur.