Caywood v. Caywood

LESTER, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court of Brazos County which admitted to probate a letter as the last will and testament of E. H. Caywood, Jr. His mother, Mrs. Texsa Ann Caywood, and his sister, Mrs. Lillian Ann Hosek, are the proponents and his father, E. H. Caywood, Sr., is the contestant.

At the time the letter was written the deceased was a U. S. Navy Air Corps pilot and stationed at Halleter, California, and was expecting to be sent to Japan in the near future. He did leave for Japan on or about March 1, 1945, and was killed in action on or about…