In re the Accounting of Barry

Taylor, S.

The fund here involved is ready for distribution, upon this accounting, and the substituted testamentary trustee has requested the court to construe the decedent’s will in order that proper distribution may be made.

Although the will is short, different and conflicting interpretations of it are earnestly urged. The two dispositive clauses are as follows:

“ First: I give, devise and bequeath all my estate, both real and personal, unto my executor hereinafter named, in trust, to hold and to invest the same and to pay the income therefrom semi-annually unto my wife for and during her…