In re Hallet
New York Court of Chancery
' This was an appeal from a decision of the vice chancellor of the first circuit, upon the construction of the will of C. Sambler, deceased.
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' This was an appeal from a decision of the vice chancellor of the first circuit, upon the construction of the will of C. Sambler, deceased. The decedent by his original will, made in 1809, devised to his wife for life his farm in the city of New-York, together with the stock, farming tools and household furniture, and after her death he gave to his grand children and to their heirs forever, the said farm, as follows : “ to the children of my step-daughter Margaret, the wife of J. N. Greensb.ack, lot No. 1 of my said farm ; to the children of my daughter Susanna, the wife of W. Coulthard, lot…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The real estate specifically devised is, as to all the shares, limited to the grandchildren of the testator ; among whom the children of the step-daughter are designated by him by the term grandchildren. If the question arose, therefore, as to that portion of the real estate specifically devised to the children of Barbara, in case she should have any, there certainly would be much reason to suppose that by the term grandchildren in the last clause of the will, the testator had included the children of his step-daughter, who were called his grandchildren in a previous clause. In…
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