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FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF MARLIN v. ALLEN

No. 5781.

557 S.W.2d 175 (1977)

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF MARLIN, Texas, Appellant, v. Walter H. ALLEN et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Waco.

Rehearing Denied November 10, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Henderson, Jr., Cameron, for appellant.

Robert G. Carter, Jack D. Welch, Marlin, Wiley Stem, Jr., Danny C. Wash, Waco, John L. Hill, Atty. Gen. of Tex., Stephen J. Wilkinson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, for appellees.

HALL, Justice.

Appellees Walter H. Allen and Mary Jane Reagan, executor and executrix of the estate of Lalla Branson, deceased, brought this suit for a declaratory judgment construing the deceased's last will and three codicils to it. We are concerned on this appeal only with conflicting claims by appellant First United Methodist Church of Marlin, Texas, and appellee L. D. Moore, which arose in this fashion: In the will the testatrix devised her home to the Church...

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