Ridgely v. Ridgely

This appeal brings before us for construction the last will and testament of the late Charles Ridgely of Hampton.

After bequeathing pecuniary legacies to his several sons, and bestowing all his real and personal estate upon his wife, Margaret Sophia Ridgely, for her life or during her widowhood, he devised his real estate, after the death or remarriage of his widow, among his children, and bequeathed his personal estate in the clause, upon the proper construction of which this controversy arises, as follows, viz: “And with respect to the whole of my personal property, except such portion as I…