Scott v. Townsend
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Second. Supreme Judicial District. Contest of the will of Winfield Scott, deceased, by Mrs. Georgia Scott Townsend and another against Mrs. Elizabeth Scott and others. Judgment in the district court for contestants, on appeal from the county court, was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals (159 S. W. 342), and contestees bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtPhillips, J.
The ease is before the court on petition for writ of error, filed in the Court of Civil Appeals prior to July 1, 1913; to have reviewed the judgment of the honorable Court of Civil' Appeals for the Second District, affirming the judgment of the district court of Tarrant county setting aside the probate by the county court of an instrument therein admitted to probate as the last will of Winfield Scott, and annulling it. Answer having been made to the petition, we may determine the ease.
The suit was instituted by Mrs. Georgia Scott Townsend, the daughter of Scott, joined by her husband, the…
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