Crawford v. Springle

On Application for Rehearing

This Court's opinion of September 10, 1993, is withdrawn and the following is substituted therefor.

Phyllis W. Springle sued Vera J. Crawford, seeking the partition or sale of certain real property located in St. Clair and Talladega Counties. The property originally belonged to Springle's mother, Sara Crawford, who devised the property to her husband, Donald Crawford, pursuant to a holographic will naming him as her sole heir; Sara Crawford died in 1956 and the will was probated in Virginia (hereinafter "the Virginia will") in 1959. Donald Crawford thereafter…