Houston v. Harberger

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

Walter R. Woodhouse made his will in 1921. He died in 1921. His wife, Mary E. Woodhouse, made her will in 1922. She died in 1930. These wills, in all respects material to our decision upon the matter of their proper construction, are identical. Through trial and error we have concluded that this opinion will be more readily understood if the two wills be treated as one, with provisions of both treated (for purposes of the opinion) as though they were in a single will, which we will hereinafter term the Woodhouse will.

Mrs. Martha Edna Martin, now deceased, was one of four…