Wells v. Newton

JUDGE ROBERTSON

delivered the opinion oe tiie court:

The parties in this case submitted to the circuit court a precautionary petition for a judicial interpretation of the will of James Newton. The court construed so much of the will as concerns two grandchildren of the testator so as to entitle each of them representatively to only half of a child’s part, and they appeal.

So much of the will as essentially applies to the question submitted for-our revision provides, that, after a small legacy to the testator’s surviving wife, the residue of his estate, movable and immovable, including the…