Case Name: 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
Court: New York Surrogate's Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1912-10
Citations: 9 Mills Surr. 464
Docket Number: 
Parties: 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.
Judges: 
Reporter: Mills' Surrogate's Reports
Volume: 9
Pages: 464–464

Head Matter:
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.
(Surrogate’s 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.

Opinion:
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 woiild 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.