In re the Accounting of Frey

Collins, S.

In this proceeding for the settlement of the account of the trustees, construction of the will of the deceased and that of his son as donee of a power of appointment is requested in order to determine the validity of the attempted exercise of the power. Deceased, whose will was admitted to prohate in this court as that of a resident of New Jersey, directed the division of his residuary estate into sixths. Two sixths thereof were to be held in trust for his son, Alfred H. Hamilton, for life with remainder to his “ heirs ” as that term was defined in article ninth of the will to…