In re Wood's Estate

Erma R. Wood died a resident of Atlantic County on June 14, 1944, leaving a will containing a residuary clause. The estate was duly administered, and after final accounting a petition was filed for a Decree of Distribu*312tion. Among those who might have participated in the distribution of the residuary fund was one James M. Dodson, at one time a lieutenant in the Air Force of the United States Army.

Lt. Dodson was on overseas duty and sometime late in July of 1943 left his army base on a bombing mission from which neither he nor any of the members of the crew of the plane in which he traveled…