Boyd v. Fanelli

How courts have described this case

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• stating that next of kin refers to a class of which all members would be in the same degree of kinship to deceased
• clear import of will was that phrase “next of kin” meant “closest blood kin,” not statutory heirs or distributees, and referred to a class of which all members would be in the same degree of kinship to testatrix

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).