BANK OF RALEIGH v. THOMPSON

No. 16889.

351 S.E.2d 75 (1986)

BANK OF RALEIGH, Trustee of the Eva Teter Hammer Trust, and West Virginia Board of Regents, a Corporation, and the University of Health Sciences, a Corporation, Appellees, v. Alta M. THOMPSON, Administratrix of the Estate of Macie Teter Williams, Alice Jean Enke, Anna Dean Williams, Barbara Enke, Elizabeth Enke Becera and All Unborn Children of Alice Jean Enke and Anna Dean Williams, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

November 28, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Sayre, Sayre & Sayre, Beckley, for appellants.

W.H. File, Jr., File, Payne, Scherer & Brown, Beckley, for Bank of Raleigh.

W.A. Thornhill, III, Beckley, for University of Health Sciences.

Charlie Brown, Atty. Gen., for Board of Regents.


McHUGH, Justice:

This case is before this Court upon appeal of a declaratory judgment concerning the interpretation of a will and its corresponding codicil. It arises from an order entered on April 3, 1985, by the Circuit Court of Raleigh County in which the court ruled that the testamentary instruments of Dr. Eva Teter Hammer created a life estate in the trust income of the "Eva Teter Hammer Trust" for her sister, Macie Teter Williams, and upon her death, for the...

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