In Re Reeves' Estate
Court of Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal from Judgment of the district court (in an appeal from the county court), admitting to probate the will of Earl W. Reeves, deceased, and dismissing a contest of the surviving father, brothers, and sisters of the testator, on the ground that contestants had no interest in the estate. All of the property of the testator was personalty, and therefore passed, independently of the will, to proponent, Anita Reudrick Reeves, surviving wife of testator, there being no children of the marriage.
The only question the appeal presents is whether the marriage of testator and proponent was absolutely…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Powell v. PowellSupreme Court of Kansas · 1877
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