In re the Judicial Accounting of Brooklyn Trust Co.

This proceeding for the judicial settlement of the account of the Brooklyn Trust Company, as executor of the last will and testament of William T. Barr, deceased, involves the construction of the testator’s will.

The question at issue involves the 2d paragraph of the residuary clause of the will. The testator, having devised and bequeahed his residuary estate to his executor in trust for the benefit of his widow during her lifetime, then provided: “ At the decease of my wife, or at my decease if I outlive my wife, I give, devise and bequeath my residuary estate to my nephews and nieces then…