WHITE v. TAYLOR

No. 15635.

281 S.W.2d 237 (1955)

Beulah Ratcliffe WHITE et al., Appellants, v. James O. TAYLOR, Independent Executor, et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Denied July 15, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryce Swartfager, Santa Rosa, Cal., Coy U. Spawn, Jr., and Kelley & Ryan and C. O. Ryan, Houston, for appellant.

Benjamin L. Bird, Fort Worth, for appellee Executors, James O. Taylor and W. B. Todd.

Crowley, Wright, Miller & Garrett, Fort Worth, for appellees May Taylor Todd et vir, W. B. Todd (individually) and James O. Taylor (individually).

Tilley, Hyder & Law and Thos. H. Law, Fort Worth, for appellees Lonnie French Walker et vir, W. B. Todd, Jr., and minors Lucy Mildred Taylor, Evelyn May Taylor and Anna Mary Borglum.


RENFRO, Justice.

Suit was brought in the district court by the executors of the wills of Edna Ratcliffe Taylor and Nearle Taylor Follett, mother and daughter, for a construction of the wills.

The question before this court is whether the estate of the daughter passed to the mother or whether it passed to certain contingent beneficiaries in the daughter's will. The trial court held that Mrs. Follett's property passed to the contingent beneficiaries named in...

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