MILLS v. HOWELL

No. 11502.

416 S.W.2d 453 (1967)

William C. MILLS, Executor of the Estate of Jobe Howell, and William C. Mills and Millie Exa Mills, Guardians of the Persons and Estates of William Jobe Howell and Dixie Lynn Howell, Minors, Petitioners, v. Maria Fioravanti McKay HOWELL, Individually and as Next Friend of Kelly Luisa McKay, a Minor, Respondent.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Austin.

Rehearing Denied May 24, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. D. Brown, Quitman, Strasburger, Price, Kelton, Miller & Martin, Royal H. Brin, Jr., Dallas, for petitioners.

Harold B. Stone, Dallas, for respondent.


O'QUINN, Justice.

On petition for writ of error, the executor appointed under a will and the guardians of the persons and estates of minor children of deceased seek to set aside a declaratory judgment holding the petitioner for judgment to be the surviving common law wife of deceased and her infant daughter the child of that marriage.

The first question in the case is whether appeal by writ of error was perfected.

Petitioners for writ of error are...

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