Raymond vs Sanmogam – clr volume 3 page 063

In the case between the claimants (including the first two plaintiffs as a married couple and the third plaintiff) and the party in possession of the house (including Andris/Arnold Raymond), the court examined the proper construction of a will devising a residence through a life estate and subsequent remainder. The main legal issue involved whether the devise “to A and to his lawful issues” created co-ownership for the testator’s grandson’s children or conferred upon them only a successive, reversionary interest. The court held that the will provided merely a personal life estate to the grandson, with the children’s rights arising only upon his death. This outcome reaffirmed the principle that terms in wills referencing succession more closely indicate substitutionary rather than concurren