Estate of Wallace v. McAlear

Robert J. Sutton, estate administrator, appeals from two orders of the Liberty County District Court, dismissing certain claims of his civil suit and denying his objections to a 1942 decree of distribution in the Isabella Wallace estate.

In stating the facts, it is easier to segregate the pertinent incidents by date as follows:

June 15, 1938 — Isabella Wallace executed a Will which was prepared by J. H. McAlear, her attorney. In the Will Isabella Wallace named H. J. McAlear and W. H. Shafer as executors and testamentary trustees and devised life estates in her real property to her two sons…