Ford v. Allen

O’QUINN, Justice.

Clyde M. Ford, individually and as administrator with will annexed of the estates of his deceased parents, brought this suit in 1973, naming as defendants the three grandsons of his mother, by an earlier marriage, and sought judicial construction of certain portions of the wills which plaintiff asserted are ambiguous.

The three defendants, Ronald Albright Allen, James Donald Allen, and Claude William Allen, all non-residents of Texas, answered and defended under two principal contentions. Defendants contended that the wills of their grandmother and her husband were not…