In this construction proceeding the executors request a determination as to whether two adopted children of the testatrix' deceased son, James B. Ricks, share in a bequest of one fifth of the residuary estate to the children of the deceased son.
The critical portion of the will, revealing a number of words stricken out prior to execution, reads: "Fourteenth: (c) I give, devise and bequeath one of such equal shares as follows...
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