Love v. Love

Mr. Associate Justice Fishburne

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court.

This appeal requires a construction of the will of William M. Love, late of the county of Chester, and the codicil thereto. The case was tried in the circuit court on the pleadings and on an agreed statement of facts.

William M. Love, the testator, died on or about March 13, 1926. He left of force a will dated March 6. 1916, and a codicil thereto executed ten years later, on January 18, 1926.

At the time of the execution of the will, the wife of the testator, Mamie E. Love, was living, but before the execution of the…