In re the Estate of Weissmann

Wingate, S.

It is indeed rare in a proceeding involving the construction of a will that the court is favored by the opulence of citations presented in this case. Unfortunately, much of the diligence of counsel in the search for testamentary phraseology resembling that in the will at bar, is inevitably lost labor, since, as has been repeatedly pointed out by all courts passing upon these questions, “ the citation of authorities is of very little use in cases of this kind upon the fundamental principles of the law of wills. All the authorities cited are a mere repetition of those rules. The…