Allen v. First American National Bank

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SHBIYER, J.

This suit involves the right of a dissenting widow to maintain her bill asking a construction of her husband’s will and seeking to have the 12th item thereof declared void for uncertainty, it being insisted that he died intestate as to the remainder of his estate which he sought to place in trust by the 12th item, and that she is thus entitled to receive such remainder as intestate property, there being no children.

*546The Chancellor found, among other things, that the result of the widow’s dissent was that she took that portion of her husband’s estate provided by statute instead of…