In re the Estate of Weir

Wingate, S.

The uncertainty respecting the effect of the present will, with which the interested parties have permitted themselves to be plagued during the third of a century which has elapsed since the death of the testator on August 1, 1906, is not due to any doubt respecting bis donative wishes, but solely to mistrust as to the adequacy of direction regarding the machinery to be employed in their effectuation.

The document contains four dispositive items. So far as presently material, that numbered “ second ” gave the widow a legal life estate in the premises 236 Twenty-fifth street,…