ESTATE OF DEVITT

No. 07-86-0121-CV.

758 S.W.2d 601 (1988)

In the ESTATE OF Christine DEVITT, Deceased.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Amarillo.

Rehearing Granted in Part and Overruled in Part August 12, 1988.

Second Rehearing and Rehearing Denied September 13, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Montford, Lubbock, Baker & Botts, Larry F. York, Joe R. Greenhill, and Philip Houser, Austin, for appellant.

Crenshaw, Dupree & Milam, James H. Milam and Cecil Kuhne, Lubbock, Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., John R. Vasquez, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, for appellee.

Before DODSON, COUNTISS and BOYD, JJ.


Second Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied September 13, 1988.

COUNTISS, Justice.

This is a will contest. Appellant Dorothy Secrest Klein challenged the probate of the will of her aunt, Christine Devitt. The trial court held that she was judicially estopped from contesting the will, and granted summary judgment for the executors, appellees Helen Devitt Jones and George W. McCleskey. In this Court, Klein attacks the judgment by three points of error. We...

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