MATTER OF ESTATE OF MARTIN

No. 5100.

643 P.2d 859 (1981)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Mary E. MARTIN, a/k/a Mary Elizabeth Martin, Deceased. Rosa HANVEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. D.B. STONE, Personal Representative and New Mexico Boys Ranch, Inc., Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

December 22, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George T. Harris, Jr., Susan Stockstill Julius, Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris & Sisk, P.A., Albuquerque, Ronald G. Harris, Ruidoso, for plaintiff-appellant.

Paul J. Kelly, Jr., Hinkle, Cox, Eaton, Coffield & Hensley, Roswell, for Personal Representative, D.B. Stone.

Carl H. Esbeck, Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, P.A., Albuquerque, for N.M. Boys Ranch.


OPINION

DONNELLY, Judge.

This is an appeal by Rosa Hanvey, a first cousin of testatrix, from a district court order determining that testatrix Mary E. Martin died testate, leaving her entire estate to the New Mexico Boys Ranch, Inc., a contingent devisee. We reverse the decision of the trial court.

Testatrix Mary E. Martin died on September 18, 1979, in Clovis, New Mexico, leaving a will dated August 17, 1966. She had never married and had never...

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