Parker v. Blackmon

REAVLEY, Justice.

Gaines Parker has established his unrestricted interest to property devised by the will of Cathalene Parker, and the judgment of the trial court in his favor has been affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals. The majority opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals, however, construes the trial court judgment so as to deprive Gaines Parker of part of that interest. 544 S.W.2d 810. We affirm the judgment and construe it as did the dissenting Justice of the Court of Civil Appeals.

Cathalene Parker, who died in 1958, gave all of her property by her will to her husband, Gaines Parker,…