In Re the Accounting of Thompson

I see no significant difference for present purposes between “children”, “heirs”, “issue”, “descendants” or other such generic terminology, when used in the will of a stranger to the adoption. There being no substantial evidence that the matter of adopted issue was ever considered by the testator or of any contrary probable intent on his part, the primary presumption of exclusion should control. The judgment should therefore be affirmed for the reasons expressed in my dissenting opinion in In re Coe, 42 N. J. 485, 495 (1964). To the authorities there referred *301to may be added Oler,…