Wetherill's Estate

Henderson, J.,

— By the twelfth clause of her will the testatrix provided as follows: “After the death of my friend Anna M. Peters, I give and bequeath to my niece Elizabeth W. Burgin, wife of Dr. Herman Burgin now of Germantown, Philadelphia, the sum of Ten thousand Dollars during her life and at her death to go to her children if she has any, or if not, to her natural heirs.”

Anna M. Peters is dead, and Elizabeth W. Burgin is dead without leaving children, and, hence, the fund passes to her “natural heirs,” and the exceptions raise the question as to who are in this class.

The word “heirs” is…