Handy's Estate

Gest, J.,

dissenting. — The will which we are called upon to construe is very badly drawn, and its obscurity would seem to be due, in great measure, to the effort of its draftsman to condense its provisions.

Henry Handy died in 1893, and by his will devised his entire estate to his trustees in trust to pay the income to his wife Margaret during her life, and at her death (which occurred in 1904) he bequeathed $16,000 to his son Charles, and $16,000 to his trustees in trust for his daughter Margaret during her life, and then, without any specific remainders at her death, he continued, “and as to…