BRIDGES v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK IN DALLAS

No. 17085.

430 S.W.2d 376 (1968)

Ruth BRIDGES et al., Appellants, v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK IN DALLAS, Independent Executor of the Estate of Vernice W. Reppert, Deceased, et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

Rehearing Denied July 26, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. C. Divine, Houston, for Ruth Bridges.

Richard Geiger, Dallas, for Edwin L. Davis.

Ralph W. Currie, Dallas and Robert D. Showalter, Denver, Colo., for James E. Wallace.

Earl Luna, J. Kyle DuVall, of Jackson, Walker, Winstead, Cantwell & Miller, Dallas, for appellees.


DIXON, Chief Justice.

This case calls for the judicial construction of a will.

On June 17, 1965 Mrs. Vernice W. Reppert, an elderly widow, died leaving a holographic will with several holographic codicils, only three of which are involved in this controversy.

The will, dated May 22, 1956, named numerous beneficiaries in disposing of an estate of an estimated value of $600,000. In the only part which need concern us here Mrs. Reppert made certain devises...

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