Hawes v. Hawes

John H. Dunham died testate April 28, 1893, leaving Elizabeth H. Dunham, his widow, and Helen E. D. Hawes and Mary Virginia Dunham, his children. The ninth paragraph of his will is as follows:

“Ninth—I devise and bequeath all the residue and remainder of my estate, both real and personal, to my daughters, Helen Diinham Hawes and Mary Virginia Dun-ham, and to their legal issue, respectively, if any living at her decease, but if either should die without leaving such issue or any descendants of such issue, then to descend and vest in the issue of the other of my said daughters or the descendants…