Guy v. Crill

GUITTARD, Chief Justice.

In this suit by an executor to construe a will, the principal question is whether a specific bequest of corporate stock was adeemed by a reorganization and merger resulting in issuance to the testatrix of a different number of shares in a different corporation. Also presented are questions concerning the effect of stock dividends and stock splits, whether the stock awarded to the two residuary beneficiaries was properly chargeable with the value of personal property received by them from the estate, and whether the court properly admitted the testimony of an attorney…