Grubb's Estate
Grubb's Estate
Opinion of the Court
The learned auditing judge concluded with some hesitation that the word “children” as used by the testatrix in making provision for her daughter, Mary Lilly G. Beall, included a grandchild of the daughter. This was
Appeal dismissed at appellant’s costs.
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- Wills — Construction—Word children as including grandchildren —Reference to husband’s will. The word “children” as used by the testatrix in making provision for her daughter included a grandchild of the daughter under a -will providing “all moneys, stock, bonds, and mortgages, I bequeath to my daughter Mary, I leave in the same strict trust as my husband appointed in his will for my daughter Mary, and after her death to be divided equally, in the same trust, among Mary’s three daughters, or more, should there be more children. at the' timé of her death,” where her husband’s will contained the express direction in his provision for the daughter Mary, that upon her death the descendants of any one of her children who might die before, should take the deceased child’s share “per stirpes, upon the principle of representation.”