NOVAK v. STEVENS

No. B-8647.

596 S.W.2d 848 (1980)

Octavia NOVAK, Petitioner, v. Rhonda Ray STEVENS, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied April 16, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald B. Shifrin and Dudley Mann, El Paso, for petitioner.

George T. Thomas, Big Spring, for respondent.


POPE, Justice.

The questions presented are whether a district court, sitting in probate, has jurisdiction to hear an application for the probate of a will and a will contest and also to construe a will to determine whether it was a contractual will. The district court consolidated two probate matters for trial and then rendered one summary judgment which denied probate of a 1968 will and rendered another summary judgment that admitted to probate a 1976 will. The court...

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