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Future Interests-Acceleration Of Vested Remainders Subject To Complete Defeasance, Allen C. Holmes

Michigan Law Review

In 1938 the defendant, grantor, executed a deed by which she purported to vest a remainder in her son, the plaintiff herein, subject to a life estate in herself and. in her husband should he survive her. The deed further provided that should her son die before the survivor of her husband and herself, then the property was to pass share and share alike to the son's then living heirs. The grantor survived her husband. Shortly after his death she conveyed her life estate to her son for the express purpose of destroying it through merger with the remainder vested …