Clough v. Clough
This text of 15 A. 127 (Clough v. Clough) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of New Hampshire primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The devise is “to my niece Mary S. Clough . . . to her heirs and assigns if she should have living issue, if she should have no issue then to have the use and occupancy of said premises during her natural life.” There is no express condition making the devise of a fee to Mary depend upon her issue continuing to live as long as Mary, or as long as the testator; and the will does not show that the testator used the terms “ have living issue ” in any other than their literal sense, or with an implied qualification that Mary’s issue must survive her or the testator. This apparent intention was that the birth of living issue would determine whether Mary took a fee or a life estate.
Judgment for the defendant.
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