Watson v. Smoker

GREENE, Judge.

Sharon Lee Frye Smoker, Ronald Edward McBride, Susan Lynn McBride Church, and Gary Church (collectively, Defendants) appeal the trial court’s order granting summary judgment in favor of Cora Lee Payne Watson, Lee Vernon Payne, Charles Odell Payne, Jr., and Curley Llewellyn Payne (collectively, Plaintiffs) entered on 30 April 1999. 1

On 28 October 1997, Plaintiffs filed a complaint and request for a declaratory judgment interpreting the will of Mericá Canzada Payne (Testatrix). The will of Testatrix, probated on 22 December 1964, provides, in pertinent part, as follows:

SECOND: I…