In re the Accounting of National Bank

Taylor, S.

This will, after making a number of money-bequests, devised to the decedent’s sister, his only near relative and with whom he lived for a number of years, the right to occupy the residence property during her lifetime “free from all rent and charge,” and instruction is requested as to the meaning of the quoted words, specifically whether the life tenant is thereby absolved from the general requirement in such cases of paying taxes and ordinary real property carrying charges.

It is somewhat surprising that the efforts of counsel and the surrogate’s own research have disclosed no…