Cooper v. Haines

The sole question in this case is, whether the will of Mary R. Haines, is a valid execution of the power given her in the will of George Haines her husband ? The testatrix died in 1881, and her will does not therefore come within the operation of the Act of 1888, ch. 249, which provides that, “every devise and bequest, purporting to be of all real and personal property belonging to the testator, shall be construed to include *284also all property over which lie lias a general power of appointment, unless the contrary intention shall appear in the will or co dicil containing such devise or…