STEAKLEY, Justice.
The problem here is whether the testamentary instruments in question devised the homestead to the surviving widow in fee simple determinable, or created only a life estate determinable. The testator, James Madison Welch was married twice, the second time to Effie Mae Welch on March 20, 1940. Welch executed a holographic will on September 18, 1945 which, as relevant here, reads:
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