In re the Estate of Slosson

Fowler, S.

This is an appeal by the executor from the order fixing tax. The decedent, who was a resident of New York, died on the 2d of January, 1918. Her father, Peter Naylor, died on the 27th of November, 1872, leaving a will by which he directed his trustees to pay the income from a certain part of a trust fund to his daughter Josephine during her life, and on her death to pay over said fund as she by her last will should devise, bequeath or direct, “ and in default of such last will to pay over the same to those who by law should be entitled to receive it, had she died intestate, seized or…