Sinnott v. Gidney

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• holding that “[a]ll of the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, which is real property situated in the State of Texas” was a residuary devise, not a general or specific devise of real estate
• acknowledging that the general rule is that “the personal property of a decedent is the primary fund for the payment of debts and legacies”
• applying common law presumption that debts should be paid out of the residuary where will contained instruction to pay debts and expenses from the \estate\
• Hold&g on this point li&ted to Section 4 of Article 7144a, presently carried as Article 15.04
• reserving, at 513, question of apportionment as to non-probate assets

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).