Cooper v. Cooper

GRAVES,. Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of the 61st District Court of Harris County, entered partly upon a jury’s verdict in response to special issues submitted, and partly upon independent findings of the court itself from the pleadings and evidence, allowing the appellee, as the surviving wife of Ernest H. Cooper, deceased, — on her suit therefor against appellant, Charles Cooper, individually, and as independent executor of the estate of Ernest H. Cooper, and Alice Cooper, the deceased’s daughter and one of his de-visees, — and payable, primarily, out of the deceased’s estate in…