In re the Estate of Burger

Smith, S.

Richard E. Burger, at the time of his death, was engaged in the operation of retail furniture stores at Schenectady, Glens Falls, Poughkeepsie and Newburgh. He had no near relatives, and, after making many charitable bequests to-various organizations in these cities, gave the residue of his estate to Mary Perrott and Louise Green. The estate amounted to about the sum of $1,021,499.66.

The executors have petitioned for judicial construction of the following paragraphs of his will:

“Eighth. I give, devise and bequeath to. Tubercular Hospital of Newburgh, N. Y., the sum of Seven thousand…