Waller v. Gilliland

PITTS, Chief Justice.

This is a suit for the construction of a will jointly executed by a man and his wife and particularly for the purpose of determining a proper disposition to be made of certain bequests made in the will to persons who preceded the testators in death. About 1902 at Denison, Texas, L. Lantz, a bachelor 45 years old, married a widow about the same age, Mrs. Minerva J. Waller, who had three children by a former marriage. She is known in the record as “M. J. Lantz”. Soon thereafter they moved to Hardeman County, Texas, where they accumulated a community estate and continued…