In re the Judicial Settlement of the Estate of Hawley

Heaton, S.

Upon this judicial settlement the will of the deceased must be construed to determine whether or not she died intestate as to any of her property, and for that purpose other persons who might possibly be affected by the construction have been made parties, as well as the legatees.

Miss Hawley made her will in 1887, and at that time she "had one nephew, William Hawley, and fifteen first cousins, sisters and one brother of her mother, had living children. To each of these four branches of the family, she gave a one-fifth part of her estate. In one branch there was one surviving *117cousin,…