In Re Collins

This appeal brings up a decree of distribution entered in the Essex county orphans court on January 29th, 1926, in so far as that decree held that a bequest of six-sixteenths of the residue of the estate of Ellen M. Collins lapsed by reason of the legatee's death prior to the death of Edward E. Collins, a life tenant, and that as to such six-sixteenths share the testatrix died intestate, and directing the distribution thereof to the heir-at-law of said testatrix.

Ellen M. Collins, the testatrix, died August 26th, 1921. She left a will, the portions of which pertinent to this inquiry are as…