Perdue v. Perdue
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Sixth District, in an appeal from Bowie County. J. S. Perdue, who had made application to probate a will in the County Court, which was refused there and also on his appeal to the District Court, appealed, and on affirmance of the judgment by the Court of Civil Appeals (208 S. W., 353) obtained a writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Greenwood
This was a proceeding to probate an instrument, which could' not be produced in court, as the will of J. T. Crawford, instituted by plaintiff in error, who was named in the instrument as sole devisee and independent executor, without bond. J. T. Crawford left no wife nor children nor descendants of children; and, his brothers and sisters and all other persons who could take an interest in the estate of J. T. Crawford, if he died intestate, were joined as defendants in plaintiff in error’s application to probate said instrument. Among these defendants was Frank A. Crawford, a brother of the…
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