In re the Estate of Wehrfritz

Slater, S.

In this accounting proceeding a question has arisen with respect to the payment of a legacy for $1,000 to the Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the United States, under paragraph first of the will of this decedent.

The decedent died on January 7, 1935. Her will, executed on November 10, 1915, was admitted to probate on April 9, 1935. Paragraph numbered first of the will provides as follows:

“ First. I give and bequeath to the Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran…