Anderson v. Anderson

I respectfully dissent. The majority would deny the attorney for the executor his approved attorney fees theorizing that the trial court was without jurisdiction to hear the attorney’s claim even though the *59claim was approved by the alternate executor, the Corpus Christi National Bank. If, as the appellant claimed, the trial court was without jurisdiction to approve the attorney fee claim, it was equally without jurisdiction to hear the claim and contest by the appellants from which this appeal originates.

In May 1976, Wesley Gene Anderson died, and in June 1976, J. C. Anderson filed the will…