In re the Estate of Gotthelf

Slater, S.

This is a petition by the German legatees who seek to compel the decedent’s executors to settle their account and ask for a determination as to, and a construction of the eighth paragraph of the will, which is as follows:

*310“ Eighth. I direct that any estate, inheritance, legacy, succession or similar duty or tax which shall become payable under any present or future law in respect to any property or any interest or estate therein passing under this my Last Will and Testament shall be paid out of the principal of my residuary estate.”

The will was executed June 12, 1926, and was…