Cunningham v. Townsend

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

Roy F. Townsend et al. sought a declaratory judgment that they were the owners of certain property as the beneficiaries of the 1950 will of Mrs. Lucy M. Townsend Carter and that defendants had no interest therein as the beneficiaries of the will of her surviving husband, J. Will Carter. Plaintiffs alleged Mrs. Carter was the wife of J. Will Carter and that she had no children; that she died first and each left a will which was probated; that in Mrs. Carter’s will she gave the realty in controversy to plaintiffs, subject to a life estate in her husband, and made specific…