Sammons v. Elder

OPINION

DAVIS, Chief Justice.

This will construction case primarily concerns the interpretation of the term “savings account and/or savings certificate.” After a bench trial, the court found that all but two of the decedent’s, Waldine Harvey Novian’s (“Novian”), various money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts constituted a “savings account and/or savings certificate,” thereby passing to her two children under the will. The trial court found the two remaining accounts to be checking accounts, which passed equally to her stepdaughter and children. -…