Picot v. Picot

We granted this appeal to review the chancellor’s construction of a will. The facts and circumstances are not in dispute.

Roy Picot died intestate on September 14, 1982. His estate consisted of a farm and certain other assets irrelevant to this appeal. His wife, Maggie Eure Picot, and their four children survived him. Maggie died testate on May 27, 1985, survived by all four children. Her will, executed October 20, 1983, provided in pertinent part as follows:

SECOND: I give and devise all of my real estate, it being my undivided dower interest in the Roy Picot farm, to my son, William Thomas…