Court Opinion

ID: 9831988
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:31:41.166933+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:40.687040
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
In their motion for rehearing, appellees complain of the omission, from the original opinion, of any consideration of the case of Hay v. Hay (Tex. Civ. App.) 120 S. W. 1045, which appellees urge in support of their contentions. We do not regard that case as having that effect. It was provided in the will there construed that, “after tfie death of” the two life tenants, “I give and bequeath all my property * ⅜ * in fee simple unto the surviving children of” said life tenants. *490One of the designated life tenants was unmarried at the time the will was written, so it was provided in the instrument that, if he died without lawful issue, his share of the estate should go to the children of the other life tenant, but that, if he, died leaving lawful issue, such issue should take share and share alike with the children of the other life tenant. The then unmarried life tenant aft-erwards married, and, predeceasing his co-tenant, was survived by lawful issue, who were held to take, along with the children of the surviving life tenant. If that decision is at all in point, then its effect is to support the construction we have applied to the will here in controversy.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.