Estate of Sessions

The appeal herein is from an order distributing the estate of the testatrix, Ellen Sessions, to her legal heirs, instead of to the heirs of William E. Jackson, who was named in her will as her residuary legatee.

Ellen Sessions died on August 5, 1913. William E. Jackson, the residuary legatee, died in 1911. He was not akin to the testatrix. The sole question presented for determination is whether the residuary bequest to Jackson lapsed upon his death, or whether it should be given to his heirs because of certain words in the residuary clause which, it is claimed, are words of substitution. With…