Walker v. Chambers

Backes, Y. C.

Mary A. Walker, deceased, left a will giving lier estate to institutions, friends and relatives. It contains twenty-nine items of disposition of specific property or money of stated sums. The last item reads: “I give, devise and bequeath the remainder of my personal property to my cousins mentioned in this will.”

Ten first cousins and seven second cousins are mentioned. The second cousins contend that they are entitled to participate as “cousins,” and the question which the executors are unable to solve with security to themselves is, whether the residue of the personal property…