Kerens National Bank v. Stockton

L. M. Morris and his first wife, Rosetta, owned a 275 acre tract of land out of the Henderson survey in Navarro county, subject to a vendor’s lien for a large sum. The wife died, leaving surviving the husband and six minor children. Thereafter Morris purchased a 20 acre tract of land out of the Shed survey. He then married again, and with his second wife, Etta, and his five minor children (one of his children having married), lived on the 275 acre tract. Morris died, leaving a will. The will, omitting formal parts, reads:

“1. I desire that my body be buried in a decent Christianlike manner…