Poole v. Union Trust Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Wayne; Hally, J. Bill by Caroline Boeing Poole against the Union. Trust Company, Frank W. Blair, and Hobart B. Hoyt,, trustees under the will of Marie M. Owsley, deceased,, and another, for a decree construing the will of said deceased, for an accounting, and for other relief. From the decree of the court both parties appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtKuhn, J.
The testatrix inherited from her first husband, William Boeing, and a deceased daughter, one-half the former’s estate. (Her surviving daughter, the complainant herein, inherited one-quarter, and her surviving son, a defendant, the other one-quarter interest.) She devised to her surviving children, in *164equal parts, the residue of her one-half interest, after making certain specific legacies and devises, one of which included an annuity of $10,000 to her second husband, Dr. Owsley. That part of the will, the effect of which is in doubt, reads as follows:
“8th. All of the rest and residue of my…
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