Hughes v. Marshall National Bank

MOORE, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order appointing a receiver. The basic controversy is between Marshall National Bank as Independent Executor of the Estate of Lilia Long Hughes, deceased, and W. R. Hughes, her surviving husband. The litigation commenced when appellant, W. R. Hughes, filed a petition for a declaratory judgment 1 seeking to have the court to determine and declare that a certain agreement between him and his deceased wife made in 1956 constituted a valid, binding contract dividing their property as of that date. Appel-lee, Marshall National Bank in its capacity as…