Matter of Estate of Brown

OPINION

BLEIL, Justice.

The questions in this appeal are whether a devise and a bequest by Samuel Brown in his will were adeemed because the decedent did not own the property described in them when he died. The trial court found that they were not adeemed. We reverse the trial court’s judgment as to the devise and affirm as to the bequest.

Brown died on October 30, 1993. His widow, Susan Taggart Brown, petitioned the county court to probate a will Brown made on July 10, 1991. Suzanna Brown May and Samantha Anne Brown, the decedent’s daughters by a previous marriage, objected and removed the…