Simmons v. Simmons

A careful reading of the will leaves little doubt as to the testator’s intent. In the second article of the will, if force is given to all of its expressions, there appears an equivocation and patent ambiguity, and it becomes questionable whether an estate in fee is given in the real property therein devised and a life estate in the personalty described, or whether an estate for life only is given in realty and an absolute estate in full and complete ownership in the personalty; and perhaps whether, by either of the bequests, the wife takes more than a life interest. But by the provision of…