Gilman v. Congregational Home Missionary Society

The testator, Friend Tilden, died in 1894. He had been a widower for more than twenty years and *582left as his sole heir at law a daughter, Mary C. Donely, wife of John E. Donely. At the death of her father she had a son and a daughter, but both predeceased her, as did also her husband. In 1929 she died without issue. By his will, dated in 1886, in the eighth clause, the testator gave the residue of his estate to his daughter “for and during the term of her natural life only, she to apply the income arising from the same, for her maintenance and support” and, as enlarged by a codicil, gave her…