Clay v. Clay

JUDGE B.OBEKTSON

delivered the opinion op the court:

The only question for onr consideration is, whether, as adjudged by the circuit court, the surviving widow of James B. Clay, who died intestate, is entitled to a distributive portion of a fund bequeathed by the will of his deceased father, Henry Clay, of Ashland, in the following words — succeeding a bequest of a residual portion of personalty to each of his two sons, Thomas H. and James B. Clay — “It is my will and intention that the said fund, in equal proportions, shall finally pass to such persons as each of my said sons, as to his part,…