Rogers v. Strobach

Citations

• 15 Wash. 472
• 46 P. 1040
• 1896 Wash. LEXIS 223

Syllabus

<p>WILLS — CONSTRUCTION — RIGHTS OP LEGATEE’S ADMINISTRATOR.</p> <p>A will bequeathing to each of the testator’s two children one-half of all the moneys that may be realized from the sale of all his real and personal property, to be paid to them on their attaining the age of twenty-one years respectively, is a devise to the children and not to the executor, though the will may further provide that all the property is devised to an executor, in trust, with power to sell same and invest the proceeds in securities, until the children attain their majority, when principal and interest is to be paid over to them.</p> <p>Upon the death of one of the devisees under such will before having attained his majority, the administrator of his estate is entitled to demand and receive his portion from the executor.</p>