Riggs v. McMullen

HITZ, Associate Justice.. This is an appeal from an order of the probate term of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia overruling an exception to, and approving the first and final account of, the National Savings & Trust Company and Alfred Riggs, as executors of the estate of Jane A. Riggs, deceased.

Miss Riggs died in Washington on June 11, 1930, leaving a large estate and a will thereafter duly probated, the fifth item of which is here in question and provides that:

“I give and bequeath all of my jewelry, the balance of my silver, my clothes, articles of personal adornment, and the…