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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Horton finds that the lower court improperly interpreted a will left by the appellants' late father. The probate court erred in ruling that "the will includes an ambiguous devise of land" as to one of the children and that the share that would have passed to her "instead falls into the estate residue and passes to the residuary devisees." The court rules that there is no reason for the alleged ambiguity "to defeat the entire devise." Vacated.
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