We hold here that a will clause exercising a testamentary special power of appointment by apportioning shares between two appointees, with the apportionment of one appointee's share contingent on his survival of the decedent, is a complete exercise of the power even if that appointee does not survive. Thus, the entire appointive property passes to the other named appointee and none is distributable to the deceased...
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