State v. Whitaker

OPINION

CHASE, Justice.

In December 1977 Muriel Valerie Burrow died in Harris County, Texas leaving a will in which she named Appellee, Comer Whitaker as Executor and as Guardian of the person and estate of her two sons, Charles W. Burrow and James W. Burrow. Both of her sons are non compos mentis and are residents of the Mexia State School, a residential care facility for the mentally retarded operated by the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation of the State of Texas. The will also directed the Appel-lee as executor to establish a trust with a corpus of $7,500.00 to be used for…