Cowan v. Cowan

LUMPKIN, Justice.

In this suit the appellants, W. C. Cowan and Ora Lea Scott, asked that their mother’s purported will be declared invalid. The suit was brought in the County Court of Swisher County, Texas, under that portion of the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act, Art. 2524 — 1, Sec. 2, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes, which provides that any person interested under a deed, will, or written contract may have determined any question of validity arising under the instrument.

The appellants’ mother, Mrs. Rosa E. Cowan, who is still living, and her husband, J. C. Cowan, had three children— the…