In re the Construction of the Will of Bell

Collins, S.

The successor executor has asked the court to

construe paragraphs sixth through seventeenth of decedent’s will. The testator left an estate consisting of real property valued at $110,000 subject to a first mortgage of $44,800.20 and insufficient personal property to satisfy certain legacies provided by the will. He left surviving him his granddaughter and sole distributee, Marjorie B. Fox, and two great grandchildren, the children of Marjorie B. Fox, only one of whom, William Fox, was alive at the date of the execution of the will. The petitioner and Marjorie B. Fox contend that the…