Ayala v. Martinez

OPINION

YÁÑEZ, Justice.

In September of 1989, the decedent, Sergio Martinez Ayala, entered a San Antonio hospital for a serious operation. Appellees contended that there he made a holographic will. The decedent had a previous will that he executed in Mexico on August 4, 1969. Appellants urged probate of the foreign will and the appellees propounded the holographic will. The trial court found the September 1989 document to be a valid holographic will. The court probated both wills, the holographic will controlling where conflicts between it and the prior will were apparent. The court also…