First Nat. Bank, C., Woodbury v. Scott

By the bill filed herein the executors of the estate of Job Scott, deceased, seek instruction in aid of their trust duties.

The primary issue is whether the widow of testator is entitled to her claim of dower in testator's real estate.

The will contains certain devises and bequests to testator's wife of real and personal property and by a subsequent clause provides as follows:

"Eighteenth. I order and direct that all the gifts, devises and bequests herein contained to my wife, whether directly or to her in trast for her, are in lieu of her dower in all of my real estate."

The present doubts of…