In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Proceedings of Bauer

Appeal from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County, construing a will so as to provide that a general legacy is entitled to priority over specific legacies.

Testator died at the age of sixty-four, a little over two months after the execution of his will. He left him surviving a wife, who was his second (the marriage having taken place six months before bis death), Ms first wife having died one year and nine months before Ms death. After providing for the payment of debts and funeral expenses, bequeatMng $1,500 to a cemetery for the maintenance of Ms plot, and making bequests of…