Case ID: ohio-law-abs_4/html/0359-13.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BAY J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 472
    No. 19494
    Charles E. Sommers v. Barbara Doersam, Reichmann P. Knell and H. J. Ossing, Administrator de bonis non with the will annexed of the estate of Phillip Knell, deceased.
    'Error to the Court of Appeals of Franklin 'County.
    1271. WILLS — Plain and natural meaning of ’words and of technical terms used cannot be (departed from to give effect to supposed intention of testator, but it must be found in the words of the will construed according to rules of interpretation, and admissible facts, ;and circumstances.
   BAY J.

In the construction of a will where the words, when given their natural, ordinary and generally accepted meaning, are plain and unambiguous and when technical terms used in the will have an equally plain and well known meaning and show a clear intention on the part of the testator, then such meaning cannot be departed from for the purpose of giving effect to what may be supposed was the intention of the testator. Such intention must be found in the words actually used in the will, construed in the light of the established rules of interpretation and such evidence of extrinsic facts and circumstances as are properly admissible in a suit for construction of a will.

Judgment affirmed.

Marshall, C. J., Jones, Mathias, Allen, Kinkade and Robinson, JJ., concur.