In re the Accounting of Wiltse

John D. Bennett, S.

In this accounting proceeding the petitioner requests a construction of the will in which, by article eighth thereof, the testatrix placed one half of the remainder of her personal property, together with certain real property, in trust for the life of her daughter Sarah. The testatrix directed that upon Sarah’s death: “ the entire principal of said fund be paid to my son, franklin steels wiltse, if then living, but if he be dead, then to his heirs, to be his or theirs, as the case may be absolutely and forever ’ ’.

The decedent died on January 15,1934, leaving a will…