In Re Allwood

This is an appeal from the decision of the Essex county orphans court construing the will of Alice M. Allwood, deceased. Decedent's will was probated in the Essex county orphans court on September 21st, 1928. By it, after providing for the payment of debts and funeral expenses, testatrix made bequests of various sums of money to nine individuals and to four charities. Of the nine individuals four were relatives, three of whom would have been entitled to the entire estate in the event of intestacy. The remaining five legatees were not related to the decedent. As the relation of these legatees…