Farver v. Pickett

The will of Sarah J. Pickett, late of Carroll County, contained the following provision: “All my just debts and funeral expenses with a small monument to be erected at my grave, shall be first duly paid.” After bequests of personal effects to a niece and a sister, the will directed that all the residue of the estate should be sold, and then bequeathed one-third of the proceeds to- Marcus I)1. L. Pickett, the husband of the testatrix, and the remaining two-thirds in equal shares to her husband, a sister, and four brothers. In an administration account filed by the surviving husband, as…