Shannon v. Ryan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, Chief-Justice.

The bill in this case was filed by the executor of Ellen J. B. Shea, late of the city of Jersey City, to obtain a construction of her last will and testament. By that will Mrs. Shea, after providing for the pajunent of her debts, and making specific bequests to parties named, gave pecuniary legacies to certain relatives and to specified religious and charitable societies amounting altogether to $48,000. She then, by the thirteenth item of her will, provided that

“should my ¡personal estate .be insufficient to enable the foregoing…