Hackensack Trust Co. v. Hackensack Hospital Assn.

This suit is brought to obtain the construction of the will of Mrs. Flora Curry Adams. She and her daughter, Dr. Flora Adams, were in an automobile accident in which they were fatally injured. They were taken to a hospital, where testatrix died within an hour and the daughter about thirteen hours afterwards. Both of them were unconscious from the time of the accident until their respective deaths.

By the clause of the will which requires construction, the testatrix in the seventh clause provided as follows:

"All the rest, residue and remainder of my estate I give, devise and bequeath unto my…