In Re Eaton's Estate

Sally Foster Eaton died a resident of this state on August 23, 1931. Providing for disposition of the estate to others in the event of the death of either or both of the children prior to attaining the age of twenty-one years, Mrs. Eaton devised and bequeathed her residuary estate to her two adopted children, a fifteen-year-old daughter and a son sixteen years old. The pertinent provision of the will reads as follows:

". . . but in the event of the death of either of my said adopted children before he or she shall have reached their majority, unmarried and without issue, then the survivor…