In re the Estate of McEvoy

Wingate, S.

The will, construction of portions of which is here prayed, was executed on June 9, 1922, and was admitted to probate in this court on February 11, 1927. It contains sixty-nine numbered paragraphs by which testator bequeaths approximately $600,000 in cash and the controlling interest in the New York corporation of John F. McEvoy, Inc. Nearly one-third of the pecuniary legacies are given to charity and the residue of the estate is left to other charities.

• It has been made to appear that at the time of the execution of the will the personal property of the testator considerably…