Cadmus v. Combes

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beasley, C. J.

This is a bill exhibited by an executor, seeking a construction, with respect to several particulars, of the wilí under which he is acting. The bill shows that the complainant’s testator was seized, at the time of his death, of a large tract of land, situated in the city of Bayonne, containing about one hundred acres, and also of a large personal estate of about the value of $100,-*265OOO, and that the pertinent parts of the will in question were in these words, viz.: .

“ I give, devise and bequeath unto my wife, Cathalina, my son-in-law, John…