Osgood v. Vivada

At the outset we wish to say that we have made a careful examination of the photostatic copy of the will, submitted to us by agreement, and we find no basis for the claim advanced by one of the attorneys that the word “the” appearing after “and paid over to the children of said grandchildren or ‘the’ heirs” probably spells “ther.” Wherever the word “the” appears throughout the will we find it written out in the same way; where “their” appears it is spelled out fully, and where the words “the heirs” are juxtaposed they are written out in the same way. If perchance the claim should prevail that…