Harding's Estate

Gest, J.,

The question in this case is whether a bequest to a great-nephew who predeceased the testatrix is saved from lapse in favor of his issue by force of section 15 (b) of the Wills Act. We are of opinion that the auditing judge correctly decided this question in the negative.

It is true, as argued by the learned counsel for the exceptants, that the word “children” in wills is sometimes construed to include grandchildren, but this is done where a consideration of the whole will leads to such a conclusion, as in Campbell’s Estate, 202 Pa. 459; Joyce’s Estate, 273 Pa. 404, and Lewis’s…