Ruffin v. Farmer

Citations

• 72 Ill. 615

Syllabus

<p>1. Wills. The construction of a will is a matter for the court, and should not be left to the jury.</p> <p>2. Same—legacy payable to one at the age of twenty-one years, goes to his administrator if he dies before he attains that age. Where a legacy of a certain sum of money is, by will, given to a boy, to be paid to him at the age of twenty-one years, and he dies before attaining that age, his administrator is entitled to recover the same when the time at which he would have attained that age, if living, arrives.</p>