Brown v. Turpan

The court is asked by the complainant in this case to construe the last will and testament of John Praed and particularly the second paragraph thereof which reads as follows:

"Second: — I give, bequeath and devise to my wife, Alice V. Praed, all my property, both real, personal and mixed, wheresoever situate, of which I may die seized or possessed, or to which I may be entitled at the time of my decease, to have and to hold the same to her absolutely and forever. But, it is my wish, however, that if any of my said estate so devised to my said wife, shall be and remain in her possession at the…