In re the Estate of Van Brunt

Wingate, S.

Consonant with the primary principle of testamentary interpretation that the wish of a decedent in so far as it may be ascertainable from the directions incorporated in his will, is to be effectuated, it has uniformly been decided that questions of preference and abatement are determinable in accordance with the expressed or reasonably inferable desires of the testator. (Matter of Crouse, 244 N. Y. 400, 404; Matter of Morris, 227 id. 141, 144; Matter of Frankenheimer, 195 id. 346; Orton v. Orton, 3 Abb. Ct. App. Dec. 411, 415; Wechsler v. Drey, 203 App. Div. 692; Matter of Lloyd,…