Nash v. Hamilton

This cause involves a construction, of the following clause of the will of Mary Maxon Nash :

“To my sister Darien C. Hamilton, wife of F. W. Hamilton, I give and devise the following property: * * *

*67“(c) $2,000.00 of the first mortgage bonds of The Gallipolis Gas & Electric Company, said bonds being secured by mortgage upon both the gas and electric plants.”

At the time of the execution of said will the testatrix owned four first-mortgage bonds of the par value of $2,000, issued by The Gallipolis Gas & Coke Company, which operated a gas and electric' plant in said city, and which were evidently…