Bryant's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

After certain bequests, unimportant here, testator bequeathed $230,000 in varying amounts to specified charities, $275,000 in trust for a nephew for life with remainder to his surviving descendants, and $300,000 in trust for a niece for life with remainder to her surviving descendants. His will then provides as follows:

“ELEVENTH. I have made and divided the foregoing bequests upon the basis of the face value of my securities as I now own them. If by reason of depression in values of my estate as a whole, the payment of all the foregoing legacies in full is not…