Moore v. Langston

In passing on this appeal, it becomes necessary to determine whether the first codicil was intended merely as the expression of a wish or advice to the .two daughters, or whether it constituted a valid and enforceable bequest to the plaintiff.

At the date of the first codicil the testatrix was receiving from the two rental properties approximately $2,000 per month. She conveyed these properties to the corporation which she helped to organize. In payment she received stock in the corporation and its note for $50,000. The note, subject to a credit of $8,000, and a substantial block of stock in…