Case Name: ANNA HOVER et al v. ROSE GARDNER et al
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1924-12-29
Citations: 2 Ohio Law Abs. 135
Docket Number: No. 18281
Parties: ANNA HOVER et al v. ROSE GARDNER et al
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 2
Pages: 135–135

Head Matter:
No. 117
ANNA HOVER et al v. ROSE GARDNER et al
Error to Logan County Appeals
No. 18281,
filed in Supreme Court Dec. 29, 1924.
2 Abs. 45
1271. WILLS — Construction of devise, as to character of estate.
Attorneys — West & West, Bellefontaine, for Hover; W. Clay Huston, De Graff and H. H. Newell, contra.

Opinion:
This case asks for the construction of the will of Daniel Hoy, deceased, executed in 1856 in the following words:
"I give and devise to my beloved wife the farm on which we now reside containing about seventy acres, during her natural life; at the death of miy said wife the real estate aforesaid, I give and devise to my sons, Isaac Hoy and Philip Hoy, and their children; if either of miy sons should decease leaving no children, then, in that case, the surviving son shall have the deceased son's part of my estate."
Neither at the date of the execution of said will, nor at the death of said testator, did either of said sons have children.
The Common Pleas held that this devise vested in the two sons a fee simple. The Appeals held that it created a fee tail estate. Following the holding in Soteldo v. Clement, 29 Bull. 385, and Ranny, Ex., v. Ranny, 5 NP-73, affirmed 19 CC. The Court of Appeals for Logan county held that devise created a fee tail.