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COVINGTON v. McDONALD

No. 6996.

307 S.W.2d 335 (1957)

J. B. COVINGTON, Appellant, v. Mrs. Mary McDONALD, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

November 19, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl R. Parker, J. Lee Zumwalt, Burt Barr, Dallas, for appellant.

Leake, Henry, Golden & Burrow, Geo. Garrison Potts, Duncan Boeckman, Hartman Hotz, Dallas, for appellee.

FANNING, Justice.

This is a will contest case. On February 15, 1943, William L. Covington, now deceased, a career Army sergeant, executed his written will at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, naming his first cousin, Mrs. Mary McDonald, the appellee herein, as his executrix, with her son, Laurie Arnold McDonald, as his beneficiary. The execution of the will was witnessed by the attesting witnesses, H. H. Harmon and Earl D. Britton, and all of the legal formalities requisite...

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