In re Stevens

Clarence B. Stevens died June 18, 1919, at the age of sixty-five years. His will was admitted to probate in the Surrogate’s Court of Westchester county on August 8, 1919. The instrument is concise, and the only dispositive paragraph, the correctness of the surrogate’s construction of which is the sole issue here, reads as follows:

“ Second. I give, devise and bequeath all my estate, both real and personal, of every kind and nature, and wheresoever situate that I may own at my decease, to my wife Selena Stevens, with full power to sell and convey all or any part of said estate, and to give…