In re the Estate of Ward

Feely, S.

Nearly twenty years before her death in 1935 this testatrix made her last will, wherein she directed, among other things, that if her husband did not outlive her -— which proved to be the fact •— then her executors should divide her estate into eight equal parts and pay over one of those parts “ to each of my children living at the time of my death, or to the heirs at law of any children of mine now living who shall not survive me.”

To ascertain the persons whom she meant to designate by the words “ heirs at law ” in the alternate clause just quoted has now become, in the sequence of…