Holmes v. Alexander

I. The first two questions transferred by the superior court require that the meaning of the words “my heirs at law,” as used in the second clause of the will, be determined. The facts in this case are essentially so similar to those involved in the cases of Hardy v. Gage, 66 N. H. 552, and Remick v. Merrill, 80 N. H. 225, that the reasoning of those cases may properly be applied without restatement. The trustee is accordingly advised that the heirs at law of Clarissa A. Knapp, who now take the fund created by the second clause of her will, are those persons who fulfilled that description at…