Hanvey v. Stone

OPINION

DONNELLY, Judge.

This is an appeal by Rosa Hanvey, a first cousin of testatrix, from a district court order determining that testatrix Mary E. Martin died testate, leaving her entire estate to the New Mexico Boys Ranch, Inc., a contingent devisee. We reverse the decision of the trial court.

Testatrix Mary E. Martin died on September 18, 1979, in Clovis, New Mexico, leaving a will dated August 17, 1966. She had never married and had never had children. Both of her parents and her only brother had predeceased her. Testatrix’s mother, Mary M. Martin, died on July 23, 1973, more than six…