This is a proceeding for a construction of the will. Petitioner is a grandson of testator and a remainderman of the last of four trusts created under article Fourth of the will.
The will was executed and testator died many years prior to the enactment of section 47-a of the Decedent Estate Law so that the common-law rule applies. The provision in question reads as follows:
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