Lancaster v. Burris

BARROW, Justice.

This suit was brought by Isabel Burris, a widow, Alberta Martin, joined by her husband, T. J. Martin, and Madge Matthews, joined by her husband, R. L. Matthews, against Owen E. Lancaster, Jr., Owen E. Lancaster, III, and Blake L. Lancaster, for the partition of two tracts of land, one containing 230 acres, which we will call the first tract, and the other containing 224 acres, which we will call the second tract.

This suit primarily involves the construction and interpretation of the will of Yolanda Burris Lancaster, deceased, wholly written by the testatrix in her own…