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Nature of Suit Code: 290
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.- FILED 

United States Court of Appeals 

Tenth Circuit 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

MAR 201989 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

ELIZABETH MCCLELLAND GANT, ) 

) 

Plaintiff-Appellee- ) 

Cross-Appellant, ) 

) 

v. ) 

) 

THE GRAND LODGE OF TEXAS, (Ancient ) 

Free and Accepted Masons), a ) 

corporation as trustee for Masonic ) 

Home and School of Texas; MASONIC ) 

HOME AND SCHOOL OF TEXAS; THE ) 

CITIZENS BANK OF CLOVIS, Clovis, N.M., ) 

a corporation, ) 

) 

Defendants-Appellants- ) 

Cross-Appellees. 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

No. 88-1359 

& 

88-1461 

(D.C. No. 86-1415-JP) 

(D. N.M.) 

Before McKAY, SEYMOUR, Circuit Judges, and PHILLIPS, District 

Judge.** 

**Honorable Layn R. Phillips, District 

District Court for the Western District of 

designation. 

Plaintiff Elizabeth McClelland 

Judge, United States 

Oklahoma, sitting by 

Gant cross-appeals the 

judgment of the District Court construing the will of her 

grandfather, Joe C. McClelland. Defendant Grand Lodge of Texas 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

Appellate Case: 88-1359 Document: 010110034945 Date Filed: 03/20/1989 Page: 1 
appeals from the same judgment. 

Plaintiff also seeks attorney's fees as the prevailing party, 

which the district court denied. After reading the briefs, 

examining the record, and hearing oral argument, we are not 

persuaded that the trial court erred. We affirm the judgment 

below in all respects, substantially for the reasons given by the 

district court in its Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law 

issued January 10, 1988, and its Memorandum Opinion issued 

F~bruary 10, 1988. 

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Entered for the Court 

Stephanie K. Seymour 

Circuit Judge 

Appellate Case: 88-1359 Document: 010110034945 Date Filed: 03/20/1989 Page: 2