Case ID: del_4/html/0177-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lessee of JOB DONOVAN et al. vs. JAMES R. DONOVAN, tenant.
    A devise of “ all my real, and remainder of my estate,” without any words of limitation, will carry the fee; if there be nothing in the will to control such a construction.
    The word “ estate ” refers to the quantity of interest, as well as the body of the land.
    Ejectment. Case stated.
    Ebenezer Warren, the elder, made his last will and testament in writing, as follows:—
    
      “ Item.—I give unto- my daughter Betsey Dod, one shilling sterling, and no more of my estate. Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Bathsheba Donovan, four dollars, and no more of my estate. Item. I give unto my daughter Sarah Griffith, one shilling, and no more of my estate. I give and bequeath unto my son Benjamin Warren, one dollar and ten cents, and no more of my estate. Item. I give unto my son Ebenezer Warren, all my role, and remainder of my estáte. Item. I give unto my daughter Selah Walls, one dollar and ten cents, and no more of my estate. I leave my wife Levina Warren, and Job Donovan, my whole executors of all my estate.’,’
    
      The question was whether Ebenezer Warren, the younger, took an estate in fee, or only a life estate, under the devise to him. by the said will. Jf but a life estate, judgment to be entered for plaintiff; if otherwise, for the defendant.
    
      Wootten and Layton, for plaintiff.
    
      Houston, for defendant.
    
      Wootten and Layton, for plaintiff,
    cited, 8 Johns. Rep. 141, Jackson vs. Harris.
    
    
      Houston, contra,
    cited, 22 Law Lib. 212-20. (Powel on Devises 212.)
   The Court.

—The word “ estate,” as used here, applies to the title as well as the corpus of the land. Ebenezer Warren takes an estate in fee. Judgment for defendant.