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ROBBINS v. SIMMONS' ESTATE

No. 12509.

252 S.W.2d 970 (1952)

ROBBINS et al. v. SIMMONS' ESTATE.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Galveston.

Rehearing Denied November 20, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Liddell, Austin, Dawson & Huggins, Houston (Frank A. Liddell, Charles R. Vickery, Jr. and Dwight H. Austin, of Houston, of counsel), for appellant.

Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman & Bates, Houston (B. J. Bradshaw and Leon Jaworski, Houston, of counsel), for appellee Baylor University.

Gordon Dotson, Norman McFarland, Vinson, Elkins & Weems, M. C. Chiles, and F. Russell Kendall, all of Houston, for appellees Clarence C. Booth et al.

MONTEITH, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by Allyn W. Robbins and the National Bank of Commerce of Houston as executors named in one of the instruments alleged to be a will of Helene Simmons, deceased. The judgment appealed from is that of the 80th Judicial District Court of Harris County, Texas, entered in a probate proceeding in Harris County, Texas, denying probate of such will.

Mrs. Simmons died in Harris County, Texas, on May 3, 1950, leaving three alleged...

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