IN RE WOODS ESTATE

No. 4713.

102 N.H. 59 (1959)

IN RE CLARA E. WOODS ESTATE.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Decided April 7, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard B. Lane (by brief and orally), for the administratrix.

Faulkner, Plaut & Hanna (Mr. Plaut orally), for Florence Cram and Doris Cocco, heirs of Clara E. Woods.


BLANDIN, J.

The basic question presented is whether Clara E. Woods took a vested interest in fee under the will of her sister, Elizabeth A. Luce, in certain real estate, so that upon her death it descended to Clara's heirs, Florence Cram and Doris Cocco, or whether it passed to Mrs. Luce's only daughter, Evelyn S. Deming. The answer depends on what the testatrix meant when, after bequeathing all the remainder of her estate in equal shares to her daughter and sister...

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