In Re the Estate of Hayne

The decision of the case depends upon the meaning and legal effect of the last will and codicil of the decedent. There was a residuary clause naming as recipients of the residue of the estate four sons, one of whom had died without issue before the making of the codicil. The decedent left, as surviving heirs, four sons and a grandson, to wit: Benjamin Stiles Hayne, Brewton Alston Hayne, and Stephen Duncan Hayne (who with Arthur Perronneau Hayne, deceased, were the persons named in the residuary clause), and William Alston Hayne, the sons, and Robert T. Hayne, the grandson, the latter being…