Case ID: misc_77/html/0655-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Cohalan, S.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Matter of the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Proceeding of Charles F. Bauerdorf, as Surviving Executor of the Last Will and Testament of Kilian Heintz, Deceased.
    (Surrogates’ Court, New York County,
    October, 1912.)
    Wills — construction of word “ issue.”
    The word “ issue,” when used in a will and unexplained by the . context, construed to mean all descendants.
    Proceedings upon the judicial settlement of the accounts of a surviving executor.
    Hugo H. Ritterbusch, for executor.
    Richard H. Bruno, for Elizabeth Barth.
    Leon Lewin, for Johannes Heintz.
    Jacob E. Solomon, special guardian.
   Cohalan, S.

The term issue ” in the third paragraph of the will is used by the testator in a general and unrestricted sense and all the descendants of each of the sisters and the brother are entitled to share equally in such part of the estate as he or she would have become entitled to upon surviving the life beneficiary. Drake v. Drake, 134 N. Y. 220; Soper v. Brown, 136 id. 244; United States Trust Co. v. Tobias, 21 Abb. N. C. 392. Renotice decree for settlement.