Porterfield v. Lenover

The appellant, Robert Z. Porterfield, executor of the last will and testament of Robert M. Porterfield, and other living children of said testate deceased have appealed from a decree entered in the circuit court of Champaign county construing certain alleged ambiguous language used in the last paragraph of clause three of said testator’s last will and testament. Objections, standing as exceptions to the master in chancery’s report, were overruled by the chancellor and a decree was entered which gave the residue of said estate, after payment of debts and specific legacies provided for in the…