Case Name: CLEVELAND v. THORNTON et
Court: Ohio Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1928
Citations: 6 Ohio Law Abs. 342
Docket Number: 
Parties: CLEVELAND v. THORNTON et.
Judges: 4. In the construction of wills, the intention of the testator is to be determined. (Pollock and Eoberts, JJ., concur.)
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 6
Pages: 342–342

Head Matter:
CLEVELAND v. THORNTON et.
Ohio Appeals, 7th Dist., Ashtabula Co.
F. C. Bosworth and Lody Huml, Cleveland, and B. F. Perry, Jefferson, for plaintiff in error.
Bulkley, Hauxhurst, Jamison & Sharp, Cleveland, for St. Paul’s Episcopal Church et.
E. E. Mygatt, Conneaut, for Conneaut Mutual Loan & Tr'.' Co.
Kingdom & Kingdom, Conneaut, for defendant in error, Thornton.

Opinion:
FAKE, J.
1. The law favors the vesting of estates.
2. Provisions of will, devising certain realty to tesetator's four children and their heirs equally, that shares of any children, dying before testator, shall vest in survivors, and that they could not mortgage or dispose of property except by their concurrent act, held not to limit or cut down fee vested in them to life estate, with remainder over to survivors, in view of provision that "nothing' herein shall be construed as giving my said children any estate less than an absolute free-simple estate."
3. There is no specific rule for the construction of wills.
4. In the construction of wills, the intention of the testator is to be determined. (Pollock and Eoberts, JJ., concur.)
For reference to this full opinion, see Omnibus Index, last page, this issue.