Burch v. Burgess

JONES, Justice.

Peggy Burch appeals from the denial of her post-judgment alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for new trial in this consolidated will contest and fraud action. We affirm.

In February 1982, appellee Robert J. Burgess filed a complaint alleging that Burch had committed fraud and conversion in submitting for probate the will of Burgess’s mother, Sina Burgess, in 1976. In March 1983, Burgess filed a contest challenging the validity and the probate of the will of his aunt, Marguerite Buzbee (Sina’s sister), which will had also been submitted for probate by…