Lye v. Lye

This is a petition for the construction of the will of Richard Lye. By the second paragraph the testator gave and bequeathed “all the moneys in savings banks, as represented by savings bank books, in equal shares” to five named children with the provision that if any of them should predecease him such share should'be distributed among the survivors. By the third paragraph he gave all “the rest, residue and remainder” of his property, both real and personal, to his son Charles R. Lye, who was not one of the legatees named in the second clause.

At his death the testator left deposits in the…