Van Syckel v. Johnson

Walker, V. C.

This bill was filed by the surviving executor and trustee under the will and codicil of the late Aaron Van Syckel, and by other persons beneficially interested in the estate of the testator as residuary legatees, for the construction of the second codicil to the testator’s will, and for direction as to the distribution of the trust fund therein created, in case that provision of the codicil shall be held to be invalid. So much of the codicil as is perti-nent to this inquiry reads as follows :

“Second. I give and bequeath to my Executors or the survivors or survivor of them, the…