Reed v. Reed

This is an appeal in a proceeding brought by the four plaintiffs-appellants for a declaratory judgment construing the will of their grandfather James E. Reed, who died on December 10, 1954, and for a finding that they are pretermitted heirs of the testator and entitled to a share of 1/20 each in his estate. The defendants are James E. Reed’s executor and decedent’s four surviving children. From a decree to the contrary, the plaintiffs appeal.

The stipulated facts, so far as necessary to our consideration, are: that decedent executed his last will and testament on the twenty-first of September,…