Maxwell v. Maxwell

The executors and trustees of the estate of William A. Maxwell, deceased, ask for a construction of decedent's holographic will.

The first item of the will directs the payment of debts. The second is a bequest of silverware to decedent's daughters. The third is a gift of their mother's bureau to such married daughter as might desire it. The fourth is a direction that all property, real and personal, other than the articles aforesaid, be sold and converted into cash, and this is followed by directions that the executors purchase suitable monuments for testator's grave, as well as that of his…