Compton v. Dannenbauer

Mr. Commissioner CRITZ

delivered the opinion of the court.

The Court of Civil appeals has made a very extended and comprehensive statement of the facts and issues of this case, and in the interest of brevity we refer to the opinion of that court for a full statement. 4 S. W. (2d) 620, 622. We, however, make the following statement in order that this opinion may be complete within itself.

Fritz Messerer made a will in 1897. He died in 1927, and this will was offered for probate by Mrs. Margaret Dannenbauer, his sister. Mrs. Mary Compton, another sister, and the children of a deceased sister…