TURCOTTE v. TREVINO

No. 661.

499 S.W.2d 705 (1973)

Patrick A. TURCOTTE et al., Appellants, v. Raul TREVINO et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Denied October 31, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wood, Burney, Nesbitt & Ryan, Frank W. Nesbitt, Corpus Christi, for appellants.

Kenneth Oden, Alice, Baker & Botts, Denman Moody, Jr., Houston, Dyer, Redford, Burnett, Wray & Woolsey, S. E. Dyer, Corpus Christi, Rankin, Kern & Martinez, H. H. Rankin, Jr., McAllen, William C. Wright, Laredo, for appellees.


OPINION

BISSETT, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court of Nueces County that dismissed appellants in a contest of the will of Sarita K. East, Deceased, on the ground that they were estopped to attack the contested will. Appellants were held by the court to be estopped for want of interest in the subject matter of the suit as a matter of law. Following their dismissal, intervenor Bishop Drury was also dismissed from the case. Thereafter...

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