Groth v. Van Deursen

The object of this cause is to elicit a judicial construction of the will of one Isaac E. Dunn, deceased, and a declaration of the rights of those who claim under its terms beneficial interests in the testator's estate.

There are two articles of the testator's will which comprise the subject-matter to which the present inquiry is particularly addressed. I exhibit each in its literal form:

"First, after my lawful debts are paid, I give to my wife Louisa, one half of all that I shall die seized and possessed as long as she shall remain unmarried, and my widow, but on her decease or marriage, the…