In re Estate of Rau

SNYDER, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the probate division of the Circuit Court of Franklin County construing the will of Bessie Rau (testatrix) who died on May 20, 1983, at age 92. The probate court ruled that the anti-lapse statute, Sec. 474.460 RSMo.Supp.1984, applied. This court finds it does not apply; accordingly, the judgment is reversed and remanded.

Testatrix’s typewritten will was executed in 1962. Her will ordered the payment of her debts, specifically disinherited her half-sister, and devised her residuary estate as follows:

All the rest, residue and remainder of my…