First United Methodist Church of Marlin v. Allen

HALL, Justice.

Appellees Walter H. Allen and Mary Jane Reagan, executor and executrix of the estate of Lalla Branson, deceased, brought this suit for a declaratory judgment construing the deceased’s last will and three codicils to it. We are concerned on this appeal only with conflicting claims by appellant First United Methodist Church of Marlin, Texas, and appellee L. D. Moore, which arose in this fashion: In the will the testatrix devised her home to the Church. However, in a codicil she stated, “I have willed my home to First Methodist Church, but I want them to let L. D. Moore buy it for…