Mr. Justice Cardozo, dissenting. The real estate belonging to Silas Holmes was devised by his will, in the event of the death of his daughter “ without issue,” to his nephew and to his brothers and sisters then living, in equal shares. Upon the death of the daughter a controversy arose between her grandson, Lorenzo Allen, who was the sole surviving descendant of the testator, and the nephew a…
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