Kilpatrick v. Estate of Harris

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

Appellants Margaret Kilpatrick and Hel en Sears, 1 sisters of Earl Harris, appeal from a judgment imposing a constructive trust upon Oneta Harris’s estate. Appellants claim that the trial court erred by imposing a constructive trust on Oneta Harris’s estate and ordering that the assets of Oneta’s and Earl’s estates be distributed according to the constructive trust. We affirm the trial court’s judgment.

Earl and Oneta Harris were husband and wife. They lived in Robstown, Texas. They had no natural or adopted children. Earl and Oneta ran their own asphalt paving…