Wood v. Polk

The bill in this case was filed for a construction of the last will and testament of the late John H. Bills. The difficulty is as to the effect of certain phrases the testator has employed in the fourth and twelfth clauses of the will; and the question presented is, whether, in the disposition of his estate to his married daughters, he intended to cut off the marital rights of their husbands in the residue of his estate, after certain special devises to said daughters.

It is very clear, and is conceded, that, by four substantive clauses of the will, by which certain property is given to his…