ATKINS v. WOMBLE

No. 15196.

300 S.W.2d 688 (1957)

Lee ATKINS et al., Appellants, v. Nettie Edna WOMBLE, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

Rehearing Denied April 12, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. E. Abernathy, McKinney, Freels, Elliott & Nall, Sherman, John C. Harris, William H. Duls, Burford, Ryburn, Hincks & Ford, F. M. Ryburn, Bruce Graham and Clarence Guittard, Dallas, for appellants.

Gullett & Gullett, Denison, Roland Boyd, McKinney, Strasburger, Price, Kelton, Miller & Martin, Hobert Price, Dallas, for appellee.


DIXON, Chief Justice.

This is a will contest involving two wills of Charles Thomas Tatum, Deceased, of Collin County, Texas, who died December 19, 1952, at the age of eighty years, leaving an estate valued at more than a million dollars.

Appellee Nettie Edna Womble was one of the beneficiaries under the first will, and was the sole beneficiary under the second will. She had been Tatum's housekeeper for nineteen years prior to his death. She claims also to...

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