CARR v. JONES

No. 14815.

403 S.W.2d 181 (1966)

Waggoner CARR, Attorney General of the State of Texas, Appellant, v. Doris Goodrich JONES, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston.

Rehearing Denied June 2, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Waggoner Carr, Atty. Gen., Hawthorne Phillips, First Asst. Atty. Gen., T. B. Wright, Executive Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Arthur Sandlin, Harold G. Kennedy, Scott Garrison, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, for appellant.

Dibrell, Dibrell & Greer, Roland L. Bassett, Galveston, for appellee.


COLEMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment invalidating a testamentary trust created by the will of Henrietta Ord Jones.

By the tenth paragraph of this will, the residue of the estate of Henrietta Ord Jones was devised and bequeathed to certain trustees, who were directed to (1) "* * * provide for the maintenance and operation of the Anna Maxwell Jones Garden * *" and (2) "* * * also provide for the establishment and maintenance of a park...

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