In re the Accounting of Reidy

Savarese, S.

In this accounting proceeding it appears that there will be no residuary estate and that the general legacies, aggregating $4,006, will have to abate pro rata. The special guardian for two infant general legatees, one of whom was to receive $500 and the other $250, questions the validity of another legacy of $500 to John W. Beidy. The will provides as follows: “ I give, devise and bequeathe * * * To my nephew, John W. Beidy, son of my late brother, Patrick Beidy, in satisfaction of the debt owed to him by my late brother, Daniel Beidy, the sum of Five hundred ($500.00) Dollars.”

The…