Jones v. Warren

A bill in equity to construe the will of George W. Carpenter, heard before a single Justice, who held that the property passed to the heirs of the wife of the testator, as substituted legatees, and before this Court on appeal by the heirs of the testator.

In 1904, George W. Carpenter, a resident of Jackson, in the county of Waldo, in this state, executed a will, which upon his decease proved to be his last. The paragraphs of the will to be interpreted are worded as follows:

“Third. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife, Evelyn M. Carpenter, all of my personal property of every name and nature.

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