In re the Estate of Chapin

Appeal from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Madison County (Tait, Jr., S.), entered May 27,1982, which construed decedent’s will in favor of respondents. S. Lyle Chapin died June 5, 1980 leaving a self-drawn will executed in 1955. After making certain specific bequests, he then made the following residuary bequest: “Fourth, the Residue shall be divided between my cousins, — Jessie Lyle Faulkner,* Sam Dyer Chapin, Flora Chapin Humphries, Hejen Chapin Kirschenfeld, Julia Bonney, Ruth Skinner, Julia Wilbar Cobb, These are the only legal next of kin and may be cited at these addresses.” The…