Walker v. Fields

Plaintiffs in error, Brock Walker and Mrs. Fannie Rhodes, in the county court of Kaufman county offered for probate a nuncupative will of their father, S. F. Walker, deceased. Defendants in error, Ola Fields and others, heirs at law of the deceased, contested the probate of the same. There was a hearing of the application for probate before the county court more than six months after the speaking of the testamentary words, and that court refused to probate the will. On appeal to the district court a trial de novo was had before a jury. The court instructed a verdict for contestants, and…