Curtis v. Fendrick

REILLY, Chief Judge.

This case is before us on an appeal by a legatee of a will assigning as error the construction placed on a certain provision of such will in an order of the Probate Division of the Superior Court. The matter came before the court below 1 in a petition for instructions filed by the executrix to settle an issue between appellant and the residuary legatees.

The will in question was made a few months before her death by Irena M. Wiley, a widow who owned and occupied a house in Georgetown, which contained a valuable collection of jewels, paintings, Russian and Asiatic objets…