In re the Final Accounting of Connelly

Maximilian Moss, S.

In this accounting proceeding, a construction is sought of the will’s provisions whereunder the residuary estate is given to testator’s first and second cousins. Testator died August 30,1955, at the age of 88 years, three weeks after the execution of his will. He was a bachelor, whose father died in 1899 and his mother in 1923 at the age of 74 years; and his three brothers and three sisters predeceased him without descendants.

Testator was a lawyer, but whether or not he had extensive practice in estate matters involving the consideration of the technical definition of the…