Renn v. Samos
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Anderson. Tried below before tbe Hon. Samuel L. Earle. Conrad Renn, a native of Germany, died at Rusk, in Cherokee county, on the twenty-fourth of December, 1864. On tbe seventeenth of tbe same month.be executed his last will and testament, attested by three subscribing witnesses. He bad no immediate family, but left brothers and one or more sisters, residents of Germany or elsewhere.
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Appeal from Anderson. Tried below before tbe Hon. Samuel L. Earle. Conrad Renn, a native of Germany, died at Rusk, in Cherokee county, on the twenty-fourth of December, 1864. On tbe seventeenth of tbe same month.be executed his last will and testament, attested by three subscribing witnesses. He bad no immediate family, but left brothers and one or more sisters, residents of Germany or elsewhere. By the alleged will be bequeathed various large sums of Confederate money to the indigent families and the Masonic Lodge of'Cherokee county, and then gave to his friend and partner-. E. Samos, bis…
1Opinion of the CourtOgden, J.
This suit was brought to the district court, under Article 1262, Paschal’s. Digest, to contest the will of O. Renn, deceased, for alleged fraud and undue influence in the conception and execution of the same; and on an examination of the record we discover an error in the trial below which is fatal to the judgment, and will require a reversal of the same. On the trial the alleged will of O. Renn was proven up by the depositions of the subscribing witnesses, who testify as to a certain paper purporting to be the will of Renn, without, in any manuer, conveying to the court an identity of the…
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