Elefante v. Newhall

Alice J. Newhall, the testatrix, had three children, one of whom, a son, Cheever Newhall, had three biological children.3 On April 1, 1968, she executed a will by which, in Article Fourth, she devised her seventy-acre vacation property in New Hampton, New Hampshire, in trust for the benefit of those three grandchildren, designated by name. In Article Fifth she gave her residuary estate in trust for the benefit *300of her “issue,” in language set out in the margin.4 Cheever New-hall married his third wife in 1971, and on November 30 of that year he adopted her two sons, Mark and Michael, who were…