Brinsmade v. Beach

The first question for our advice is whether the personal property of this estate now in hand, and in amount about $10,300, is intestate estate and to be distributed to the heirs of the testatrix, or is a part of the residuary estate and to be distributed to the charitable societies named in the third clause of the will. Counsel for the heirs argues that the true intent of the will as found upon examination of it in its entirety, indicates that the remainder in the property of which Mary Ann Devine had the life use and which is the personal property of this estate ready for distribution, was…