In re the Accounting of Mepham

Witmer, S.

The issue has been raised in this judicial settlement proceeding as to whether the legacies contained in the first paragraph “ Third ” of the will are specific or general. Through inadvertence the will contains two paragraphs marked u qipjj-d >\ in his account filed herein the executor treated the said legacies as specific. The residuary legatees have petitioned to have the will construed as creating general legacies in said paragraph “ Third ”, and the executor has joined with them and now urges that the legacies he held to he general.

The first paragraph “ Third ” provides, in…