Jones's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Kephart,

Mary H. Jones died May 19, 1922. In her will she made a number of absolute bequests of money payable upon her death, three bequests in trust, the income to be applied as specified in the particular clause, and then, by the 17th paragraph, a bequest to her granddaughter, Mary Maude Howell, of $5,000 absolutely when she should attain her twenty-fifth birthday. A similar bequest was made to a grandson, but he had attained the age of 25 when his grandmother died, while Mary Howell was 14 years old at that time.

By paragraph 26 the residue of the estate was devised and…