Garvey v. Horgan

The plaintiff is a daughter of Richard Garvey, one of the heirs-at-law of Andrew J. Garvey, deceased. The said decedent, by his last will and testament and codicil thereto, devised his real property to a trustee to pay the income to his widow during her life, and on her death to distribute the same among certain charitable institutions.

During the life of the widow a dispute arose between the heirs-at-law of the testator and the charitable institutions to whom ha had devised his estate as to the validity of the devise to them, the contention of the heirs being, apparently, that contrary to the…