Bristol v. Mazza

RENFRO, Justice.

The executors of the estate of Clotilda Bicocchi Jenkins, deceased, brought suit for construction of certain provisions of her will. Only the construction of paragraph XII is before us for review.

Paragraph XII reads as follows:

“After having made provision for the foregoing bequests and devises, then the rest and residue of my estate in whatever property it may consist shall pass to and become vested in my surviving first cousins hereinafter specified — that is to say, the first cousin who shall survive my death. Said cousins who are now living and from whom the class of…