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DIST. OF COLUMBIA v. ESTATE OF PARSONS

No. 90-537.

590 A.2d 133 (1991)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellant, v. ESTATE OF Evelyn PARSONS, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 25, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan McDonald, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom Herbert O. Reid, Sr., Corp. Counsel at the time the brief was filed, and Charles L. Reischel, Washington, D.C., Deputy Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellant.

Richard S. McKernon, Rockville, Md., for appellee.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, FARRELL, Associate Judge, and MACK, Senior Judge.

FARRELL, Associate Judge:

This appeal asks us to decide whether the words "and other personal property," as used in the will of testatrix Evelyn Parsons, constitute a residuary clause embracing a lapsed bequest of money to the testatrix' sister made elsewhere in the will, or rather, as the District of Columbia (the District) contends, the will contains no residuary clause and the lapsed bequest of money escheats to the District by operation of law. The trial judge...

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