Schmidt v. Willard

This suit was instituted in trespass to try title by the surviving children and grandchildren of Christian Borden and his wife, Elizabeth Borden, against Sarah J. Willard. While in the form of trespass to try title, the suit was in substance an action to construe the following clause of the last will and testament of Christian Borden, who died in 1899, to wit: “I give and bequeath to my beloved wife, Elizabeth Borden all and singular my entire estate both real and personal to her own use and benefit for and during her life time including our present homestead situated on Lot No. 319 in Block…