Legal Opinion
Evans v. Allen
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided February 2, 2012No. 01-10-00766-CVPublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
EVELYN V. KEYES, Justice.
Appellant Ollie L. Evans filed a will contest seeking to set aside the order admitting the December 22, 2006 will of decedent William Vincent Vinson to probate. The trial court directed a verdict in favor of Betty J. Allen, the independent executor of Vinson’s estate, on the ground that the statute of limitations barred Evans’s will contest. In two issues, Evans contends that (1) the trial court erred in granting the directed verdict on the basis of limitations, and (2) Allen was judicially estopped from seeking to probate the December 22, 2006 will because…
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