Hogg's Estate

Bok, J.,

— We find little to add to the auditing judge’s succinct and correct conclusion.

The exceptants’ argument is that only those grandchildren whose parents were named in the will should inherit, and that the intervening intestacy was not anticipated by testator.

Both rules of construction and arguments on probabilities must give way before positive language, and we are in accord with the auditing judge when he holds that the word “grandchildren” obviously means all grandchildren. There is no ambiguity in it, and it is quite clear that if there were no living children of testator’s four…