Hanvey v. Stone

(specially concurring).

I concur.

This is a Will contest between Rosa Hanvey, a cousin of Mary E. Martin, deceased, but a stranger to the Will, and the Boys Ranch, a charitable corporation. My sympathies are with the.Boys Ranch, but the law is not. If any reasonable legal basis could be found to support the trial court’s judgment, I would affirm.

The only issue is this:

Under controlling rules of law, can this Court transform a conditional residue provision in the FOURTH paragraph of the Will, which condition did not occur, into an unconditional residue provision?

The FOURTH paragraph set forth in…