Tompkins v. Holman

PHILLIPS, Chief Justice.

The principal question in this case is whether the trial court was correct in granting appellees’ motion for summary judgment based on appellees’ plea of res judicata.

Appellants1 brought this suit against Juanita Swick Holman and her husband, Brooks Holman, seeking to set aside a deed to certain land in Harris County, title to which had been in Etta Tompkins now deceased. Etta Tompkins was the mother of the appellants and the grandmother of ap-pellee Juanita Swick Holman, Brooks Holman, who became the executor of Etta Tompkins’ estate at her death, subsequently…