In re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Lawrence

Fitzgerald, S.

— Under the will of decedent, as I construe it, the interest which testator’s grandson, Joseph W. Lawrence, took in the Fifty-seventh street property, was liable to be defeated by his death during the lifetime of the widow, and his issue and his sisters and their issue were entitled to a contingent interest therein. The widow having refused to accept the life estate devised to her in the said property and elected to take her dower, Joseph W. Lawrence became entitled to a defeasible, *356vested estate or interest in possession in the property. Joseph W. and Frances Lawrence and Mary…