Haupt v. Michaelis
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Fourth Supreme Judicial District. Suit by 6. B. Haupt and others against M. G. Michaelis. Judgment for plaintiffs was, on defendant’s appeal, reversed in part and affirmed in part (212 S. W. 274), and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtKittrebb, J.
This action as originally filed in the district court was in the form of trespass to try title, but the concrete question, as the case is presented to us, is, What is the proper construction of the holographic will of W. W. Haupt?
To the end that our opinion may be complete within itself, and that there may be no necessity to refer back to the original case out of which this appeal grew, we will set forth in condensed form the facts:
The will which we are called upon to construe bears no date, but was executed some time in 1905 or 1906, the exact time not being important to be known.
The maker…
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