In Re the Accounting of Thacher

By an agreed state of facts it appears that Joseph Horn, who died in Brooklyn November 1, 1925, left a last will and testament, the second paragraph of which read as follows:

“ Second. I give and bequeath the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars to each of the brothers and sisters of my late wife Nellie Horn who survived her at the time of her death on January 21st, 1924, and the same sum, namely, One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, to the child or children by representation or as a group, of each of the brothers and sisters of my late wife who predeceased her leaving a child or children; and…