Bruce, Exr. v. Warren

This case is here on appeal from a judgment of the court of common pleas construing the will of Georgiana L. Howe, deceased. The contention grows out of the residuary clause of the will, which is as follows:

‘ ‘ The residue of my estate, I bequeath and devise to Arthur Kirke Warren, the son of my half-sister, the late Mrs. Samuel Warren, and to the children of John H. Howe, late of Rochester, N. Y., living at my decease, and to the issue of any deceased child of said John H. Howe, such issue to take by right of representation.”

It is stipulated that John H. Howe, a brother of the testatrix’s…