Packer's Estate (No. 2)

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

By testator’s will, dated January 18, 1906, he gave one-fourth of his residuary estate to his wife, one-fourth to his sister Rachel J. Hill, one-fourth to his sister Nellie C. Slate, and the remaining one-fourth to John B. Packer, William C. Packer, Jr., and Mary Packer Blue (later Mary Packer Thomas), children of his deceased brother, William C. Packer, and added: “these bequests of my estate to extend to their heirs — executors and administrators of all my legatees and devisees.”

In a codicil dated April 21, 1913, testator recites the death of his sister Rachel,…