Estate of Lannon

Citations

• 5 Coffey 416

Syllabus

<p>Devise—Whether Specific or Besiduary.—If in subdivision 18 of his will a testator gives all the rest and residue of his property to his brothers and sisters, share and share alike, and in subdivision 22 he directs that certain real estate be sold and the proceeds “distributed pursuant to the eighteenth subdivision thereof,” the devise in subdivision 22 is specific, and therefore cannot abate, the reference to subdivision 18 being only to identify the devisees.</p>