Martin v. Smith

JAMES, Chief Justice.

The petition, upon which the case was heard, was originally filed in the County Court of Bexar County (from which court an appeal was taken to the District Court), and alleged in substance the following: That petitioners (appellants here) are the children of George Smith, a brother of the decedent W. B. Smith. That said W. B. Smith died in January, 1898. That he left an estate in Texas of the probable value of $9000, and that on March 22, 1898, Samuel J. Smith procured an order of the County Court of Bexar County admitting to probate a will of said W. B. Smith, setting…