Keller v. Bank of America Trust & Savings Ass'n

FINLEY, J. pro tem. *

This appeal is from the decree of distribution entered in an estate and involves a dispute over the interpretation placed by the probate court upon the provisions of a will.

August Keller died on November 18, 1951, leaving a witnessed will which had been prepared by an attorney who became one of the attesting witnesses and who also became attorney for the executor for purposes of probate. The dispute concerns the difference in construction placed by the parties upon the following provisions of the will:

“First: I direct my Executor hereinafter named to pay my just debts as…