IN RE ESTATE OF CRAIGEN

No. 09-09-00285-CV.

305 S.W.3d 825 (2010)

In the ESTATE OF Dalton Edward CRAIGEN.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

Decided January 21, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H.P. Wright, Wright & Pitre, Port Neches, for appellant.

Lee Johnson, Johnson and Johnson Law Firm, Beaumont, for appellee.

Before McKEITHEN, C.J., GAULTNEY and HORTON, JJ.


OPINION

HOLLIS HORTON, Justice.

We are asked to determine whether the trial court properly interpreted the dispository language in a holographic will. If the will is ambiguous, the applicable rules of will construction yield one result. If the will is unambiguous, the trial court was required to give effect to the express language of the will, and arguably should have reached a different result.

The trial court, in construing the testator's intentions...

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