Kidd's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Sadler,

Lizzie Kidd died on April 11, 1905, leaving a will dated April 25, 1901, with a codicil executed thereafter. She was survived by two heirs at law, her children, Frank and Blanche, the first of whom died intestate, unmarried and without issue, in 1912, and the latter, intermarried with Walter Carnes, died also without issue, testate, in 1916. The proper distribution of the balance in the hands of the trustees named in the mother’s will is the question now in controversy. An award of it was made by an auditor, appointed by the orphans’ court, to the collateral heirs…