DeKoven v. DeKoven

This is an appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District in a proceeding in equity begun in the circuit court of Cook county by the trustees of the estate of John DeKoven, deceased, to construe certain provisions of his will, wherein the “rest and residue” of his estate is given to trustees, “to hold, invest, rent, manage and care for the same, and to pay the net income thereof” to the testator’s widow “during her life, so long as she remains unmarried, and upon her death or re-marriage” to divide such residue between the appellees herein, if living at the expiration of the wife’s…