In re Estate of Boughton

*590OPINION

By DON J. YOUNG, Jr., Probate Judge.

The question presented in this estate is whether the executors may sell personal property, which was specifically bequeathed to various legatees in order to pay debts of the estate, before they have sold the real estate which passes under a residuary clause in the will.

The will in question, in the third item thereof, makes an elaborate listing of carefully described items of personal property which are bequeathed to various individuals. A codicil to the will adds certain other items of personal property to the list in item III.

The fourth item of the…