Buckman's Estate

Gest, J.,

— Joseph C. Buckman, by his will dated Oct. 18, 1894, devised to his wife, Carrie, “the net income of my estate during the term of her natural life.” And his residuary estate he devised “to be divided in equal shares amongst all my children or their heirs.”

The testator had five children: two daughters, Florence and Jennie, and three sons, Walter R., J. Morris and Harry L. Buckman. His daughter, Florence, became non compos mentis, and the testator on Dec. 1, 1914, executed a codicil in these words: “My daughter Florence’s share is to be invested and she to have the income of the same…