In re Estate of Wood

AppeUant filed a petition to construe the wiU of Artie E. Wood, deceased. The Circuit Court of Madison County entered a judgment finding against the petitioners. The case is here on direct appeal.

The sole issue is whether the trial court ruled correctly in holding that the anti-lapse statute (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 3, sec. 49) applied to the wiU of Artie E. Wood.

In her will executed July 15, 1937, Artie E. Wood provided: “Second, —I give, devise and bequeath unto Pearl A. Knecht and Nora E. Wetzel, two of my sisters, aU of my property, real, personal and mixed that I may own at the time of…