Coon v. Heinzman

POPE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment wherein a Texas court construed a Michigan will in favor of appellee, Aileen K. Heinzman, by which she recovered fifteen shares of corporate stock. Appellant urges that a Michigan probate court construed the same will in 1932 so that Heinzman did not receive the stock, and that the Michigan construction is res judicata. Whether the order of the probate court of Michigan is res judicata, and, if 'not, whether the trial court correctly construed the will to mean that'the first taker under the will received a life estate only, with remainder over…