Bell v. Burton

TIREY, Justice.

Roy W. Bell, Jr., and his sister, children of their father’s first marriage, sued Mrs. Bell, second wife and widow of Roy W. Bell, Sr., and the Helena Motel, Inc., for reimbursement because of alleged expenditures of community funds. This action (non-jury) was consolidated with an appeal by the Bell children and Mrs. Burton and Mrs. Windle, sisters of Bell, from an order of the Probate Court of Harris County denying the probate of Bell’s will executed in 1948, and admitting to probate as the will of Bell an instrument written wholly in his handwriting. Mrs. Bell, the widow,…