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EDITH K. DRAKE, executrix, c., et al., complainants-respondents, v. RAYMOND W. BYRAM et al., defendants-appellants.

The language of the devise sub judice in this case held to bring it within the established rule that where lands are devised in the first instance in language indeterminate as to the quantity of the estate, from which an estate for life would result by implication, and words adapted to the creation of a power of disposal without restriction are added, the construction will be that an estate in fee is given.

PER CURIAM.

The decree under review will be affirmed, for the reasons given in the conclusions of Vice-Chancellor Fielder.

For affirmance — THE CHIEF-JUSTICE, TRENCHARD, PARKER, MINTURN, KALISCH, BLACK, KATZENBACH, CAMPBELL, LLOYD, WHITE, GARDNER, VAN BUSKIRK, McGLENNON, KAYS, HETFIELD, JJ. 15.

For reversal — None.

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DRAKE v. BYRAM
(Oct 18, 1926)