White v. Old

This bill was filed by W. W. Old, executor of Henry Dubois Van Wyck, deceased, to construe two clauses of testator’s will. The first of these clauses is as follows:

“To any niece or nephew of mine whom I have omitted or neglected in making the above provisions (excepting the children of Dr. Howell White, for whom I have provided as hereinbefore set out) the sum of three thousand dollars.”

The testator was a widower, who had never had any children, and left surviving him a brother, and nieces and nephews, and grand-nieces and grand-nephews, descendants of four sisters who died before the…