In re the Estate of Lesser

Wingate, S.

It may well be doubted that the testamentary draftsman who prepared the present will, and whose act must be imputed to the testator, had any clear perception at the time he fabricated the document of the variety of problems of interpretation which were being generated.

The first and second items directed the payment of debts and provided for the disposal of testator’s remains in a specified manner. The fourth bequeathed $1,000 to a daughter, the fifth attempted to cut off the wife with a $500 gift, the sixth disinherited three sons by reason of their alleged disloyalty and…