Watson v. Beaty

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

Lucille Watson, independent executrix of the estate of H. E. Watson, sued W. W. Beaty, administrator of the estate of Sarah Watson, for conversion of bonds. In a trial to the court, judgment was rendered for the defendant and the plaintiff has appealed.

The plaintiff alleged that H. E. and Sarah Watson were married in 1913; that they had no children; that H. E. Watson had two children by a prior marriage, Lucille Watson and Lorene Thompson; that H. E. and Sarah Watson remained married until his death in 1956 and that he left a written will bequeathing and devising to…