In Re O'Connor

G-en. Laws, cap. 203, § 22, provides that when a testator omits to provide in his will for any of his children or for the issue of a deceased child, they shall take the same share of his estate that they would have been entitled to if he had died intestate, unless it appears that the omission was intentional and not occasioned by accident or mistake.

The case stated raises the question whether such intention must appear in the will, or whether it may be shown by extraneous evidence.

The provision appears for the first time in our statutes in the section above mentioned, and it was evidently…