Tracy v. Coyle

Charles M. Coyle died in December, 1910, leaving him surviving two sisters, Julia Coyle and Mary O’Brien, and twelve nephews and nieces of whom the defendant T. Frank Burke is one.

By his last will and testament he gave the “ use, possession, enjoyment and control ” of his residuary estate, which consisted almost entirely of real property, to his sisters, and the survivor of them, during their life and the life of the survivor and, upon the death of the survivor, devised and bequeathed the same to his nephews and nieces living at the time of his death, “ share and share alike absolutely and…