In re the Estate of Anderson

S. Samuel Di Falco, S.

The petition of the accounting executors requests determination of several questions relating to distribution of the estate. The following rulings are made on the questions thus presented:(1) The parties have properly construed the gifts to Elizabeth Dyker, William Dyker, Ruby Duncan and Harry Duncan, Jr., as general legacies. The provision in the will amounts, in effect, to a direction to the executors to purchase such bonds out of her estate generally, and such a gift is regarded as a general legacy. (4 Page, Wills, § 1397; Matter of Dressler, 122 Misc. 347; Matter of…