Estate of Pearsons

This is an application on the part of the executor of the will of Hiram A. Pearsons, deceased, for a construction of that instrument, presenting for solution by the court certain questions which may be stated briefly as follows:

Hiram Arthur Pearsons died at Chicago, Illinois, July 7, 1889, leaving an olographic will, made in April, 1882, and being at the time of his death twenty-eight years of age. *252 Upon the hearing of the petition for the construction of this will, it was established that his father, Hiram Pearsons, deceased, owned in the block bounded by Clay, East, Merchant and Drumm streets, a frontage of one hundred and seventy-eight feet on Clay, running back to Merchant, and bounded on the east by East street, and had deeded to H. A. Pearsons the westerly sixty-eight feet (about) thereof, and had devised the remaining one hundred and ten feet to said H. A. Pearsons, his son, and his widow, in equal undivided shares; that said Hiram Pearsons died testate in 1870, leaving him surviving his said widow, Ann Charity (sometimes called Charity Ann) Pearsons, and his son, said H. A. Pearsons; that said Ann Charity Pearsons died testate in 1875, and that in her will, duly…