Lanham v. Lanham
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal.from District Court, Parker County; J. W. Patterson, Judge. Proceeding by Fritz G. Lanham for the probate of the will of Edwin M. Lanham, which was contested by Mrs. Bessie Stephens Lanham. From a judgment declaring the will invalid, the proponent appeals.
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Appeal.from District Court, Parker County; J. W. Patterson, Judge. Proceeding by Fritz G. Lanham for the probate of the will of Edwin M. Lanham, which was contested by Mrs. Bessie Stephens Lanham. From a judgment declaring the will invalid, the proponent appeals. By an instrument wholly written by himself, dated July 24, 1908, Edwin M. Lanham, who died December 3, 1908, bequeathed to his brother, Fritz G. Lanham, in trust for the benefit of his (said Edwin M.’s) two children, Samuel S. Lanham and Edwin M. Lanham, Jr., who survived him, and who were then aged, respectively, about six and four…
1Opinion of the Court
Appellee, as a witness in her own behalf, over the objection of appellant was permitted to testify (quoting from the bill of exceptions) as follows: "That at Waco, Tex., at the residence of Dr. Howard Lanham, E. M. Lanham first heard of the death of his mother some time about midnight of the night the news reached Dr. H. M. Lanham; that immediately after learning of the death of his mother Mrs. Howard Lanham and Mrs. Bess Lanham left the Lanham home in Waco to go to a neighbor's to make arrangements about leaving Mrs. Howard Lanham's children with said neighbor while she could come to…
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