MR. JUSTICE FRIEND delivered the opinion of the court.
On September 13, 1945, Louis B. Erwin, a resident of Cook county, Illinois, died, leaving a last will and testament, paragraph 4, subparagraph (h) of which provided as follows: "I give and bequeath to my deceased wife's sister, Lucy W. Gardner, or, if she shall die during my lifetime, to her widowed husband, surviving me, the share of One-Ninth (1/9) of said residue." Lucy W. Gardner died during the lifetime of...
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