Young v. Benton

By the sixth clause o'f her will, Mrs. Benton provides as follows : “ I charge the estate inherited from my late husband with a life annuity of two hundred and fifty dollars to our friend, Mary Le W. Young.” Taken by itself, this clause appears to express an intent that the annuity should be a charge upon all the property which the testatrix had received from her husband’s estate. Are the surrounding facts such as to show that tins was not her purpose ? The circumstances that she gave a large number of legacies, that she manifestly desired that “ Benton Manor ” should remain in the Benton…