Donald v. Troxell

WALTER, Justice.

Mrs. Christine B. Donald, who is the same person as Christine Barker Wood named in Mrs. Barker’s will, for herself' and as independent executrix of the estate-of Clara T. Barker, deceased, filed suit, against J. E. Greenfield, Virginia T. Greenfield, and James Hiram Troxell, Jr., a minor, in trespass to try title to eight tracts of" land in Palo Pinto County, Texas. She al so sought a construction of her mother’s will that it was void because it was in violation of the rule against perpetuities, that its provisions attempted to create an interest in land too remote to be valid…