Valdez v. Hollenbeck

OPINION

Opinion by:

KAREN ANGELINI, Justice.

This appeal arises from a statutory and equitable bill of review proceeding to set aside orders signed by the probate court in 1996 that approved the account for final settlement and discharged Robert Valdez as administrator of the Estate of Pierre V. Bernard, deceased. In the underlying proceeding, after discovering that Melvyn Spillman, a former clerk with the Bexar County Clerk’s Office, had stolen funds from bank accounts owned by the decedent, which had not been accounted for by Valdez in the estate’s final settlement, the heirs to the estate…