Gaston v. Bruton

CLAYTON, Justice.

This is a suit brought by appellees in the District Court of Gaines County, Texas, against appellants in which the latter, after an adverse judgment, appealed. All parties are heirs of Nancy A. Gaston, who died in Brownfield, Terry County, Texas, on April 27, 1959 at the age of ninety-one years. The deceased ancestor left a holographic will dated September 14, 1955 which merely disposed of her money in certain bank accounts to be divided among her heirs and which named her daughter, Ida Bruton, “executrix without bond”. The daughter failed to qualify and a son, Henry Gaston,…