Hudson v. Hopkins

BILL BASS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment in a will construction case. The testator, W.S. Brock, died on August 3, 1986, leaving a will which distributed the bulk of his estate in the following manner:

I give, devise and bequeath all the residue and remainder of the property that I owned at the time of my death, of whatever nature and character and wherever situated unto F. Brock Hopkins, George C. Hopkins, Jr., and the estate of Dr. Sam H. Brock, Sr., deceased, to be divided equally between the beneficiaries in fee simple. If any of the named beneficiaries shall predecease…