In re the Accounting of Smith

Edgar F. Hazleton, S.

The executors and trustees of the above-named decedent have petitioned for the settlement of their account (final as to the executors and intermediate as to the trustees) and, as an incident thereto, request a construction as to whether or not the will of Christina McLaren Brown, the deceased wife of the above-named decedent (who survived the decedent) effectively exercised a power of appointment granted said widow under the will of her deceased husband.

The husband died on February 24, 1953 leaving a will dated September 28,1948 which was admitted to probate by this court…