Langstroth v. Golding

The Chancellor.

The bill is filed for a construction of the will of Esther M. Golding, deceased, late of Jersey City, who died May 27th, 1879. The will is dated April 8th, 1879. By the first clause, the testatrix directed her executors to pay her debts and funeral and testamentary expenses. By the second, she gave to the complainant, her granddaughter, by the name of Esther Maria Johnson, her jewelry and personal ornaments. By the third, she devised in fee to her son, John Frederick Golding, her house and lot, No. 242 East Fiftieth street, New York, where she then resided, subject to the…