In re the Settlement of the Estate of Cooper

The opinion of the court was delivered by

G-ummere, Chief-Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the prerogative court, affirming an order of distribution made by the orphans court of Camden county in the matter of the settlement of the estate of Henrietta Cooper, who died, leaving a last will and testament. But a single question is involved in the appeal, *211and that is whether a legacy given by the seventh item of the will, by the terms of which the testatrix gave and bequeathed to her two sisters, Ann N. Cooper and Mary Adelaide Jacoby, her (testatrix’s) distributive share in the estate of…