Decree affirmed, with costs payable out of the estate to all parties filing briefs.
The twelfth paragraph of the will gave the residuary estate to the testator's "nephews and nieces in equal shares or if any shall have predeceased me, to his or her respective descendants per stripes." This provision, read in the context of the will, supports the determination made by the learned Surrogate (cf. Matter of Crawford, 113 N.Y. 366; Lightfoot v. Kane, 170...
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