Lawrence v. Coffield

O’QUINN, Justice.

The principal question in this case is whether the surviving spouse of the testator was put to an election under her husband’s will and elected to take under the will, so that her deed subsequent to his death conveyed only a life estate which terminated at her death.

Trial was before the court without a jury under stipulations of the facts. The trial court rendered judgment for appellee, adjudging him the owner of an undivided one-half interest in the land conveyed to him by the testator’s widow. The court awarded the other one-half interest to appellants who are successors to…