Ricketts v. Alliance Life Ins. Co.

*727FOLLEY, Justice.

On July 18, 1914, Mary E. Ashbrook, wife of D. F. Ashbrook, both of Deaf Smith County, Texas, executed her last will and testament. The first and second paragraphs of the will provided respectively for her burial in a Christian-like manner and for the payment of her just debts. The sixth paragraph appointed her husband as sole executor without bond. The third, fourth and fifth paragraphs of the will are important in the disposition of the case before us. They are as follows:

“Third. I give, devise and bequeath to my beloved husband, D. F. Ashbrook, during his life, for his use…