James v. James

Annie James died testate on February 27, 1901. Her will contained the following clause: “I desire that all my property of every kind be divided in equal shares to my children excepting Scott H. James, his share to go to his children — he receiving nothing.” At the time Annie James died, her son, Scott H. James, had four children, viz., Evelyn, Hugh S., Alfred H„ and Edgar X., but thereafter three others were born, Mary Josephine, born June 9, 1901; Ralph Y., born July 6, 1904; and Fannie Belle, born in 1907. On June 6, 1905, in a suit in the district court of Bexar county, Forty-Fifth…