Brown v. Colorado Springs National Bank

VAN CISE, Judge.

Colorado Springs National Bank appeals from the order of the district court sitting in probate that the decedent’s residuary estate should pay the encumbrances on three properties that passed to decedent’s wife. We affirm.

The decedent’s will devised to his wife, Mary G. Brown, all right, title, and interest to four specific real properties. The paragraph immediately following these bequests provides:

“It is my desire that all of the above bequests be conveyed free and clear of all encumbrances, and should there be any encumbrances thereon at the time of my death, I direct my…