Barber v. Warren

Hines, Justice.

This appeal involves the construction of a will. For the reasons that follow, we reverse the trial court’s ruling that the will devised all the decedent’s property to Warren.

Jimmie H. Barber died on July 9, 1995. He left a will dated March 11, 1986, naming Warren, his sister, as the only legatee. The will is handwritten on one page and, after the preamble, states in toto:

I leave all my real and personal property listed in detail to my sister Jeanette Roberts [Warren]

property being and list:

Trailer 30 ft. Nat. which I live in.

Trailer 42 ft. Champion

grinder outside & table saw —…