Legal Opinion
Yost v. Fails
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided June 13, 2017No. 01-15-00773-CVPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Rebeca Huddle, Justice
A jury found that Sara McGowan signed a 2011 will as a result of undue influence and that James Fails, her nephew and the primary beneficiary of the 2011 will, lacked good faith and just cause when' he sought to probate the will. The jury also found that Fails tortiously interfered with the inheritance rights of McGowan’s sister, Georgia Cox, who was the beneficiary under McGowan’s earlier will, and awarded damages in the amount of $525,000. But the probate ■ court granted Fails’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and admitted the 2011 will to…
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