Keefer Estate

Dissenting Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearns:

Had this been a case where in the first instance the testatrix had given her husband but a life estate, and under an ambiguous provision of the will we were seeking out testatrix’s intent and were required to determine whether testatrix intended, after the decease of her husband, to pass her estate to her relatives or to her husband’s second wife, our problem would have been comparatively uncomplicated. It must be conceded that no intent could ordinarily be attributed to any married woman to bequeath her estate to her successor. But this is…