De Bree Higgins v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

In the construction of any will but little help is to be obtained from adjudicated cases. There are certain general principles and rales of construction which the cases lay down, and these are in entire harmony in all jurisdictions. But the difficulty arises in the application of those principles, to any given will, by reason of slight variations of phraseology in a particular case, or in the nature of the relationship of the testator to his legatees or devisees. The clause which this Court is called upon to construe in the present case is found in the will of Oliveira Andrews, and reads as…