First Nat. Bank of Galveston v. Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church of Galveston
Court of Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the Court
GRAVES, Justice.
This appeal by appellant-Bank' is from a judgment of the 56th District Court of Galveston County, sitting without a jury, construing the will of Mrs. Jessie'Barbour McVitie,' deceased, and especially the Fourth Paragraph thereof, as having conferred upon the appellee-Church the fee simple title to her home, therein devised to it, with the consequent right inuring to the Church t-o sdl the same, clear of any restriction or condition requiring' its continued use as a rectory, as being in conformity to the -concluding sentence thereof.
The Bank, as her named independent executor…
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