Chambers Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

James B. Chambers (testator) left a will creating a trust, the income of which was to be paid to his daughter, Hazel McGill, for her life. After Hazel’s death, the income was to be distributed as follows: “Upon her death I direct the income to be paid to her children, if any, and for and during their lives.”

This appeal requires a determination of the circumstances, if any, under which testator’s grandchild, who was adopted after testator’s death, may share in the bequest to the “children” of testator’s daughter.

On December 6, 1929, Hazel, who had been married for…