Simmons v. Davis

Undercofler, Presiding Justice.

Saint Elmo Gay and his wife Vivian Frazier Gay executed a joint and mutual will in 1964. It provided that the survivor would receive all the property in fee simple, which would then be divided upon the death of the survivor between his sisters, Mary Jim Gay Simmons and Lillian Gay Hudson, and her sisters, Helen Davis and Emma Reed. The couple had no children and Vivian Frazier Gay had worked for approximately the entire 30 years of her married life. Vivian Gay died on November 3, 1976. Saint Elmo Gay executed a new will on November 8, 1976, leaving the entire…