Church v. Gibson

WADDILL, Commissioner.

This action seeks a construction of the will of Fanny G. Thompson. By the sixth paragraph of her will the testatrix devised the residue of her estate:

“ * * * to my cousins, Thomas L. Gibson, P. L. Gibson and S. J. Gibson, jointly in equal shares, and if any of them should die without leaving'issue, before the time of distribution to them, the whole shall go to the survivors or survivor of them.”

The original will was dated October 12, 1908. This disposition was changed by an undated holographic codicil which devised the residue of the estate to the testatrix’s cousin Lula…