In re the Estate of Sperling

OPINION OF THE COURT

Louis D. Laurino, J.

Kurt Storch, the executor appointed under the decedent’s will, asks the court to construe the instrument and, more particularly, the first paragraph to determine what is to be charged to the legacy he receives under it. The paragraph in question reads: "First, after my lawful debts are paid, I give and bequeath to hurt storch the sum of $10,000.00, out of which sum I direct that he pay my funeral expenses and other lawfull [sic] debts and in addition pay for the perpetual care of my grave and that of my late husband morris sperling, both *447graves being…