Davis v. Hoskins

OPINION

BREWSTER, Justice.

This is an appeal by Mildred Von Simmons Davis from an order entered in a *425probate proceeding by the County Court of Denton County which order denied her application to probate an instrument that she contended was the last will of Ida Belle Simmons, deceased, and granted letters of administration on that estate to Jeff Hos-kins, a brother of the deceased. The original of the instrument that was claimed to be the will of Ida Belle Simmons was not produced in court. A carbon copy of the claimed will was produced. The trial was non-jury and the trial court found that the…