First National Bank v. Perkins Institute for the Blind

This is a petition for instructions by the executor of the will of Amelia G. Dyer who died July 4,1928. In the sixteenth clause of her will the testatrix gave to her nephew, John Baker, hereinafter referred to as the legatee, “all of my stock in the Standard Oil Company of New York and the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey.” Instruc*500.tians are sought as to the disposition of $7,000 in principal amount of the debentures of the Standard Gil Company of New Jersey, which the legatee contends passed to him under this clause of the will, and the other respondents contend belong to them under the…