Kehler Estate

We have been petitioned to construe a will and declare the rights therein of one Ethel Kehler Chupp. Following ar*543gument, we decided that her claim may be raised by the present action for declaratory judgment (Kehler Estate, 49 Northumb. L.J. 129, 1 D. & C. 3d 132 (1977)), and the problem now at bar is the merit of her petition.

It appears from the averments of the petition and answer that Emerson I. Kehler died testate on April 25, 1975. Testator made and executed his last will on February 14, 1963. The first and second paragraphs of the will make outright pecuniary bequests in equal sums to…