In re the Estate of Bordewick

OPINION OF THE COURT

Main, J.

On December 2, 1975 Hans Bordewick died testate a domiciliary of Columbia County, New York, and left an estate valued at $470,000. Under his will he left his wife, Evelyn Uffenwasser Bordewick, the sum of $10,000 and all his farm properties in Valatie, New York. Additionally, he made specific bequests of $5,000 to each of his two sisters, his housekeeper, a long time friend, and his nephew, Gunther Goebel. The remainder of his estate was to pass under the presently challenged paragraph "twelfth” of the will, a residuary clause, which reads, in pertinent part, as…