Haag v. Stickley

In this appeal, we determine whether the trial court correctly construed and interpreted a will.

At issue is Kenneth Lee Otto Haag’s holographic will dated January 20, 1983, and a holographic codicil dated October 5, 1985. The testator died in May 1986, and the will was duly probated in the Clerk’s Office of the court below. Helen B. Haag, the testator’s former wife, qualified as executor of the estate, which included 689 shares of common stock in the Front Royal Supply Company, Inc. The inventory showed the value of the stock to be in excess of $254,000.

In May 1987, appellees John Stickley…