TIPS v. YANCEY

No. 16993.

422 S.W.2d 759 (1967)

Col. C. R. TIPS et al., Appellants, v. Mary Jane YANCEY et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

Rehearing Denied December 29, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Odeneal, Jr., of Odeneal & Odeneal, Dallas, for appellants.

James J. Hartnett, of Turner, Atwood, Meer & Francis, Dallas, for appellees.


BATEMAN, Justice.

This is a will contest in which the principal question to be determined is whether the joint will of David Robert Smith and his wife, Johnnie Mayes Morris Smith, was contractual and mutual and therefore irrevocable by the survivor. The trial court, on appeal from the probate court, held that it was and refused to admit the later, separate will of the survivor to probate.

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