Porter v. Estate of Myrick

The question on this appeal is who is entitled to the remainder of the estate of Lucia Porter Myrick where Myrick’s last will and testament devised such remainder to her two sisters and her brother equally with the proviso that “[i]f either of my sisters or my brother shall not survive me, then I bequeath and devise the said property in fee and in equal shares unto the survivor or survivors of them.”

*100Mynck was survived by her two sisters. Myrick’s brother, William Porter, predeceased Myrick and left three children— Priscilla Porter, Mary Ann Mandell, and William J. Porter, Jr. Porter’s…