Livingston v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

Oí’S’utt, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Mrs. Catherine C. Lanahan, having on March 21st, 1912, executed in due form a last will and testament, and on May 29th, 1914, July 16th, 1918, and July 14th, 1919, respectively, codicils one, two and three thereto-, died on February 13th, 1920. Jerome Lloyd Unduch, a nephew of the testatrix, to whom in that will she had bequeathed $25,000, died on February 4th, 1920. The question presented by this appeal is whether the legacy to him lapsed.

The legatee left to survive him a widow, now Aninha C. Livingston, and two infant children, William Lloyd…