LEON v. KEITH

No. 10-86-194-CV.

733 S.W.2d 372 (1987)

Berta Graham LEON, Appellant, v. Ollie K. KEITH, et vir., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Waco.

Rehearing Denied July 23, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Eastland, Eastland & Crow, Hillsboro, Lisa H. Douglas, Sheehy, Lovelace & Mayfield, P.C., Waco (on appeal only), for appellant.

Douglas R. Drucker, Sullivan, King & Sabom, Houston, for appellees.


OPINION

THOMAS, Justice.

This is a suit for the breach of a familysettlement agreement and for actionable fraud. The court abated and dismissed the proceeding without giving any reason for its action. The principal question to be decided is whether a family-settlement agreement can only be entered into by the beneficiaries named in a will. The holding is that an heir of a testatrix, although not a beneficiary...

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