Edmundson v. Morton

LAKE, Justice.

This case presents essentially a question of interpretation of a will, involving accessions (accretions) to certain bequeathed property and whether the testator intended the bequest directly in question to be general or specific in nature.

The bequest directly in question was of certain stocks and bonds inherited by testator from his wife and bequeathed by him as a collective unit. The essence of the question is the determination of the proper legatees of normal accessions to the shares of these *278corporate stocks, which accessions occurred by way of routine stock splits and…