Martin v. Keller

This is an appeal from an order and decree construing the meaning of the dispositive provision of an holographic will.

The deceased, employed for many years as a stationary engineer, was a man with little formal education. He was 64 years old at the time of his death. In his will, dated August 4, 1941, he declared that he was not married and that he had no brothers or sisters, and he appointed Luella Martin “as Executor. ’ ’ The provision of the will which is here in question reads as follows;

‘1 Fourth: I give, devise and bequeath all my property, real and personal, wherever situated, to be…