Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court January 3, 1890 (Moffat v. Cook)

0. Allen, J.

The devise to the husband, taken by itself

alone, would clearly convey a fee to him, perhaps subject, however, to a charge for the payment of the sums which he is to pay. The next series of bequests, “In the event of my husband’s death,” means that those bequests are to take effect in the event of his death before hers.