Hogg's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Stern,

We are called upon in this case to construe a will written more than eighty years ago. It was executed in 1855 by Alexander Hogg. At that time he had a wife and four children, and he bequeathed the net income from his residuary estate to his wife for life or during widowhood, and, after her remarriage or death, one-fourth of the net income to his daughter Martha, one-fourth to his daughter Eliza, one-fourth to his son George, and the remaining one-fourth to his daughter Margaret, each for life. If any of these children died leaving issue surviving, the income…