PUTMAN, J.
This case calls for a determination of whether two children adopted by a testator's children are to be included in a post-1951 testamentary class gift to his "living grandchildren."
One adoption took place, to testator's knowledge, more than two years prior to his re-publication of his will—by codicil. This adoption is thus removed from the "stranger to the adoption" rule which was derived from cases all of which involved adoptions subsequent...
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