In the Estate of Craigen

OPINION

HOLLIS HORTON, Justice.

We are asked to determine whether the trial court properly interpreted the dispo-sitory language in a holographic will. If the will is ambiguous, the applicable rules of will construction yield one result. If the will is unambiguous, the trial court was required to give effect to the express language of the will, and arguably should have reached a different result.

The trial court, in construing the testator’s intentions under the will, found “[t]hat it was the intent of the [tjestator to leave his entire estate to his surviving wife in full.” The trial court…