Gilliam v. Mahon
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Fifth Supreme Judicial District. Suit by R. A. Gilliam, guardian and executor, against Mittie Gibson Mahon and others to construe a will. A judgment of the district court was reversed by the Court of Civil Appeals (215 S. W. 124), and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtKittrebl, J.
The action out of which the appeal in this case arose was brought for the purpose of construing the will of S. A. Mahon, who died at Dallas, on November 16, 1912. He left surviving him a widow, Alice A. Mahon, who, subsequent to his death, became hopelessly insane and so remains.
S. A. Mahon had been married prior to his marriage with Alice A. Mahon, and by his first marriage had one son, whose death preceded that of his father by several years. The defendant in error, Mittie Mahon, is a daughter of that son, and consequently a granddaughter of the testator, S. A. Mahon.
At the death of said…
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