Mason v. Mason

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The rule of wills construction that favors testacy over intestacy makes courts prefer holding a will absolute, if it is possible to construe questionably conditional language as the testator’s motivation to write a will.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• In Re the Estate of Teubert
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-12-01· cited 28×
• Helmer v. Voss
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1983-02-23· cited 8×
• Hanvey v. Stone
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1981-12-22· cited 5×
• In Re: Estate of Gloria Eleanor Franklin v. W. Jess Waltman
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-10-17
• In Re: Estate of Gloria Eleanor Franklin
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-08-09
• Mallett v. Mallett
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1994-04-29

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ferguson v. Ferguson
  Texas Supreme Court· 1931-12-09· cited 59×
• Eaton v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 1904-03-14· cited 50×
• Barber v. Barber
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1938-02-17· cited 18×
• French v. French
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1877-12-14· cited 18×
• In Re Estate of Trager
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1952-11-20· cited 12×
• Longshore v. Desmond
  California Court of Appeal· 1963-12-11· cited 10×
• Warren v. Hartnett
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1977-12-28· cited 9×
• Watkins v. Watkins' Administrator
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1937-06-15· cited 8×
• Vaught v. Vaught
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1969-09-02· cited 7×
• Ellerbeck v. Haws
  Utah Supreme Court· 1953-12-31· cited 4×
• Bobblis v. Cupol
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1937-03-31· cited 2×