McComb v. Title Guarantee & Trust Co.

This is an action by the daughter and one of the heirs-at-law of James Jennings McComb, deceased, to obtain a construction of his will and codicils and an adjudication that certain of its provisions are void. The first clause to which attention is directed is that numbered thirteen in the will, which undertakes to dispose of the testator’s homestead at Dobbs Ferry, and of the fifth floor of an apartment house in the city of New York, stated in the will to have been occupied by the testator as a home. These properties, including their contents, are in terms given to the executors and trustees…