Hornsby v. Elkins

How courts have described this case

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• reversing for a new trial and holding that trial court should have admitted extrinsic evidence regarding testator’s intent, including conversations between testator and drafting attorney
• if testamentary instrument is clear and unambiguous, testator’s intent is to be determined: “[1] from the language of the will itself; and [2] without resort to extrinsic evidence of the testator’s intent”
• reforming based on scrivener’s error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).