De Moulin v. Richards

WOOD (Parker), J.

Appeal from an order settling final account and for distribution, wherein it was ordered, among other things, that the residue of the estate be distributed to Mary E. De Moulin, the surviving spouse of the testator. The appellants, who are the daughter and son of the testator by a former marriage, contend that the testator did not dispose of the residue by his will, and that it should have been distributed under the laws of succession—one-third each to the daughter, son, and surviving spouse.

Horace Louis De Moulin died on November 1,1948. He left a last will which was as…