Stahl v. Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children

HALL, Justice.

This is a suit to construe the will of Eloise D. Williams, deceased. The principal questions we must decide are (1) whether the gift intended by testatrix’s devise of her 103-acres “home place” to certain nieces and nephews was adeemed when, three months prior to her death, testatrix sold and conveyed the home place in consideration of an $80,000.00 promissory note payable in ten years in annual installments and secured by vendor’s lien and deed of trust lien; and, if the bequest was adeemed, (2) whether testatrix intended the note should pass under the residuary clause of her…