Delaware Trust Co. v. Cleveland

Seitz, Vice-Chancellor:

The problem of will construction confronting the court may be imagined when we consider that the will was drawn for the testatrix by a layman, who used a form procured from a law. office and made such additions and modifications as he deemed appropriate.

The testatrix executed the original will on August 28, 1940, while she was under observation in a Philadelphia hospital. On January 13, 1941, she executed a codicil to her will and she died on January 28, 1941.

The will and codicil are rather elaborate, but in order to understand the problem presented, it is necessary to…