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SINGLETON v. DONALSON

No. 09-02-500 CV.

117 S.W.3d 516 (2003)

Joe SINGLETON, Therese Maureen Singleton, Georgia Trotter Singleton, Nancy Clemmons Marco, and Martha Clemmons Doherty, Appellants, v. George E. DONALSON III, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

Decided September 25, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rebecca R. Walton, Kountze, for appellant.

Kurt M. Andreason, Louis M. Scofield, Mehaffy & Weber, Beaumont, for appellee.

Before McKEITHEN, C.J., BURGESS and DAVID B. GAULTNEY, JJ.

OPINION

DAVID B. GAULTNEY, Justice.

In 1976 Ruth Hooks Donalson executed a will devising a life estate in her separate property to her husband, George Donalson III, with a "reversionary interest" to other specified relatives. She died in 1977, and her will was probated the same year. A dispute arose between George and the holders of the "reversionary" interests over certain royalties and bonuses from the oil and gas produced from the estate property...

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